please, please tell me that you shut everything down before plugging in and unplugging drives? normal scsi drives will usually put up with hot plugging, but the laptop drives also get their power from that cable as well as ground, hot plugging would be very bad most of the time (i.e. unless you got lucky with the order things connected, which might happen sometimes). having said that, the powerbook drive cables are fragile, and a broken conductor on them could well be intermittent and sometimes work but not others. did you carefully pry the connector off with a jewelers screw driver or did you pull it off? if you pulled it off you probably damaged it somewhere down the line, i've got some bad cables myself.
also, as i told you off list, ibm apparently had an evil employee for a while, i opened an old drive that had failed and the platter had an obvious gouge in it, that happened after it was coated, the drive worked for awhile, slowly grinding off more surface which then ground other things until the motor bound up. looking at the defect it would have to have been deliberate and should have easily been spotted, i'm pretty certain there was a disgruntled employee involved. if that's the case, ibm probably shipped a lot of doomed drives before they caught the guy or he finally quite. there shouldn't be a problem with the 140 handling them because of size, most likely they really did die over time and handling or the cable has gone intermittent or (hopefully not) you may have fried the drives. if you're looking for an adapter, you can get them for $5 at: <http://www.pimfg.com/>, search for "250-scsi". i haven't dealt with this company, someone on another list mentioned this the other day. please let me know how things turn out. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:17:06 EDT > Subject: Question about SCSI 2.5" HDs > > Hello listers... > > Recently I was rummaging through some xtra SCSI powerbook HDs I have > collected over the years. I tested them by hooking up a PB 100 to my PCI Mac via > SCSI > Disk mode. > > So many of my drives seem to have problems being seen by the PB 100. Before I ------------ -- Philip Stortz -- To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying its best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any human being will ever fight. -- E.E. Cummings -- 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
