> Most likely you'll never find anything. I had one of those attached to my
> IIfx and searched high and low 5 years ago, trying to figure out how to
> turn off the internal termination (there was no indication of what was on
> and off at the switches) but never found anything anywhere.
>
> I had a lot of "fun" with it, as my IIfx was _very_ picky about
> termination. Found some place in the scsi chain where the PLI would
behave
> though, and used it until it decided to die. Got more and more noisy, and
> then someday it wouldn't mount anything anymore.
>
> If the cartridges you're trying to mount in it works okay in the other
> drive, and the dips are the same, I'd say it's dead and gone. Wouldn't be
> surprising, those things are ooooold.
>
> Tina
Yeah, the IIfx needs the infamous black terminator, nothing else will do,
including most built-in termination. I figure with all the dip switches
down, the termination in the drive was off. I used a regular pass-through
terminator (when I had it hooked up as the sole external device, for
testing purposes).
Anyway, as I said in an earlier post, the upshot is, that I did learn from
various sources that the Infinity Turbo can only read from 44s, & I figured
out that anything named the Infinity RW44 can read both. So I guess they're
both OK...not bad for dumpster diving (especially, as byard pidgeon noted,
both of them probably got chucked none too gently into the dumpster (yes,
it was a real dumpster). Altho' I don't have any 88s to really test them as
far as that is concerned.
--
Over,
Jutso
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