On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 12:05 AM, Mehdi El Gueddari wrote:

> 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.

Congratulations! You are hereby promoted to SCSI Voodoo Wizard 3rd 
Class!

>  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 :-)

If so, the smoking was done by all the people who designed SCSI 
controllers...this is not the first weird termination solution I've 
ever found. I've also had chains start behaving themselves when a 
terminator is placed in the middle of the chain, too...this on a Unix 
system.

> --
Wherever you go, there you are.

Bruce Johnson



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