>However, I'm still in the market for a SCSI hard drive to fit into an >external case. At the very least, that Barracuda seems to have affected my >external case. When I pull the Quantum out of the case and hook it up to >the 6100 through the CD connections it works just fine. However, when I >hook up the drive in the case the startup hangs up as the hard drive >partitions start to appear on the desktop.
I'm sure everything's properly terminated. Sometimes, though, active terminators are needed. Hmm. Could be a faulty data cable--those ribbon cables are pretty fragile, and it's not hard to damage them in the course of hard drive swaps. It's happened to me--just not on a Mac. =) I have an external box which houses a bootable HD and a CD drive. It's quite handy for troubleshooting CD-less Macs, etc. The only problem it's ever had was a bad power supply cable--from time to time, the drive would just spin down. It made for a very stable configuration--sure to crash! Thought it was the HD, but on examining the situation, I found that I could make it spin down (or up again) just by messing with the power supply wires. I had to swap out the wiring harness from another box I had. Not fun! A word of caution--sometimes the power cords fit extremely tightly. I once had one pull a pin off the HD logic board with it! A few minutes with a soldering iron fixed it, but I was fortunate nothing else was damaged. Check your wires, check your lights, and watch your mouse's tail. Three flippant rules of computing. HTH, Jesse -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
