Hi, i did it ! i finally succeeded in adding an other hard drive to my powerbook 520. Thanks to all who tried to help me, i realy appreciate it.
For those who may be interessed, here is how i did : The HDi30 plug of my SCSI cable has 29 pins, so it's not a cable dedicated to the disk mode. I have checked if there was no ID conflict but there was none. The problem was that when i plugged the SCSI case (in which was the hard drive), the PB refused to boot and displayed the floppy disk picture with a flashing question mark. That was a termination problem : a little chip on the hard drive was used as an internal terminator. I just removed it and disabled the TERMPWR jumper on the hard drive. I didn't put any terminator on the SCSI case too. And that works ! I was then able to initialize the drive with "Drive Setup". There is absolutely no termination on the SCSI chain but that works and if i add a terminator on the hard drive or on the SCSI case, that fails. Apple engineers may have smoked something not realy catholic when they tried to design the powerbook's SCSI controller :-) Concerning the CD who refused to mount on the desktop, i've resolved the problem using "CD-ROM Toolkit" which works very well. thanks again to all you, mehdi -- 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
