I took out the Teac CD Drive on my PowerBase 180 since it seemed dead. (It may have just been too full of dust, by the look of it, but it didn't even try to spin, most times.) I disconnected the audio, power and the whole SCSI cable to the board.
I assumed that the motherboard termination would keep my old slow SCSI chain functional. Actually my SCSI Syquest on ID 4 and Zip on ID 5 seem fine. However, I have a Firewire PCI card and a Maxtor Firewire drive on it, which sometimes misbehaves. On booting, it goes unrecognized. This sometimes hangs the finder, maybe because some files are on the Maxtor which it needs, though the system is on the internal HD. The SCSI chain is independent of the PCI card's "bridge" to the Firewire drive, right? Is my bus speed of 40 MHz a limiting factor here? Is there some other reason that the Maxtor is not working sometimes? It also seems to mess up a lot with installers claiming that files are corrupt, which they probably are not. All the Maxtor supplied test utilities show it is fine. I turned off the sleeping function for the Maxtor, but that did not solve the problem. Hints on where to start are much appreciated. Lew -- Lew Mills, PhD 415-550-7672 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
