I am trying to get the cd rom drive and zip drive that came with this laptop up and running and am having no luck so far. Here is what I've tried
ZIP by itself as device 5 and terminated: Works! CD Rom by itself as any device number: Doesn't work :( ZIP and CD daisy chained with zip first and CD terminated: Doesn't work ZIP last and zip terminated: Can't try without another cable that I don't have around the house (*three* different plugs. Ugh)
I am making an assumption that the cd works, it will open and close
Any ideas?
That's annoying!
My LaCie CD-R has a switch that supposedly turns termination on and off. Of course, it wasn't actually wired up to the jumpers on the drive - the jumpers were hard set with termination on. Anything on the bus hooked up after the CD-R was never recognized... It took me a while to figure out that problem.
Do you have an actual terminator, or are you relying on the switches on the drives?
Turn off termination on both drives, hook them up in any order you like, and plug in the terminator to the last drive. Otherwise, the drive on which you enable termination must be last on the chain.
It sounds like a good chance to me that the zip drive is stuck with termination on. In that case, you'll need to track down another SCSI cable...
Does that help? Peace, Drew --
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