At 9:53 AM -0400 4/12/02, dave lamothe wrote:
>Well it's been a few weeks into my power book 520 and I have bought more
>adapters and cables than I know what to do with.
>I still can't get a web browser on the machine, though I now have many
>to choose from that someone burnt to a CD rom for me, Which leads us to
>our (or my ) problem. I have an external CD player attached through the
>proper SCSI cabling to my power book. When I use the Drive setup up
>under my Macintosh HD icon it detects the CDROM on SCSI channel 1 and my
>internal hard drive as SCSI 0. The problem is unlike when I install a
>floppy disk and the OS puts the floppy icon onto my desktop, I get
>nothing like that for my CDROM, so I don't know how to make the Mac see
>beyond the fact that there is an external CDROM drive and into what is
>actually on the CD Rom itself. The CD Rom is terminated, I'm at a loss.
>The good news is I found a monitor and a fellow student gave me a
>printer (of course the driver for it is on a CD rom)
>Any help would be great
You might need another terminator, one for the powerbook itself.
Find a centronix 50 passthrough (fits between CD-ROM and SCSI cable)
terminator for the second termination.
Paul
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