I always had good luck using two SCSI terminators to get a SCSI drive to work on a PB5300.
One was a pass-through that you would connect the SCSI cable to, and then connect to the external drive (CD, HD, whatever). The second was a terminator plugged into the empty Centronix port on the external SCSI drive (or at the end of the chain if you have more than one drive connected).
I have experienced some SCSI strangeness connecting my 5300 to an external CD drive. While it worked I got 6 or 7 disk images on the screen and each contained all of the files on the CD with the corresponding long time it took to down load the files that many times. Closing and removing the CD was a problem. Often requiring cutting power to the external drive then turning it back on.
(OEM Apple 4x CD Drive in a no name CD enclosure).
First, is this weirdness a termination issue?
I have the HDI30 to Centronix cable with an on and off switch in it.
Am I correct in assuming that the switch has to do with running in SCSI Disk Mode? Which position should it be in for external drives?
Last, do I need to have 2 external terminators if the CD drive had internal termination enabled?
Anybody with SCSI termination knowledge is GREATELY appreciated.
Tom
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