On Thursday, April 1, 2004, at 09:39 PM, Ben wrote:
Hello! I have a 5300cs and I am trying to use a scsi cdrom with it. It is
running 8.1, 8mb ram, 758 mb hd. When I plug the scsi in, it won't say that
the cdrom is plugged in. I rebooted several times. Could it be because the
cdrom drive has 2 scsi ports and one doesn't have a terminator on it? Anyone
have any suggestions?
Please help!! Thanks.
Ben
You don't say what model or brand or speed the drive is. That would help... but:
The SCSI controller on the 5300 and other powerbooks isn't quite as compliant as it could be; plus there's a termination issue as well (see LEM pages on the 5300 for details). External devices need to supply termination power.
Even following the "rules" can still lead to non-working drives. I have several external CD ROM units that should work fine, I've got active terminators on them, but still they are not happy on the 5300. I keep an old Apple 1X drive around just for the 5300 :/ the others should work, but do not.
So, perhaps check the junk stores for a 600e or older...
HTH.
B
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