on 3/2/03 8:46 PM, Michael Kaszuba at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >SNIP > Situation 1: > When I have my e100 card installed the system hangs on a white/grey boot > screen with my pointer in the top left corver and I have no mouse control. > Once I replace the e100 card, or remove it, I am able to boot from floppy > any ideas? Is my e100 card suddenly dead?
Definitely sounds like termination problems on the E100 SCSI chain. Only have self termination enabled for the last drive on that chain. If you can get a couple of 68 to 50 pin adaptors, you could try those drives on the S900's internal SCSI bus. The adaptors aren't expensive and it would answer the question about your E100 possibly being flaky. Although I bet it's just termination trouble and not the card. > Situation 2: > I am having trouble booting to anything but a floppy. I have an os 9 cd > which willl boot my powerbook without any problem. When I place in in > either drive, all I get is the floppy icon with a question mark in it. I am > unable to use either hd to boot from (long story there...) I have an os 8.5 > floppy which the system will boot from with no problem. I have tried many > things: flashing the pram, removing all memory, using a apple 600i cdrom and > rearranging the HD's, even tried a different scsi card. Hmmm, the Apple 600i should've worked, although instead of holding down the "c" key to boot from a CD, try holding the "command/option/shift & delete" keys during the boot process. Other than that, it's odd that the 600i didn't boot from an Apple System CD. > Currently situation: > I have removed all extra memory and both the HD's. I still can only boot > form a floppy. As long as your DIMM's test out as okay (using Gauge Pro, or Ramometer) then they may as well be left in. The onboard RAM is too piddly to use by itself. > My questions: > The hds I have are an quantum viking 68 pin 4 gig and a wd enterprise 4 gig > also 68 pin - Using a different scsi controller, I have set the term power > on and the term enable on for each drive. As I mentioned, termination should only be enabled for the last device in the chain. Not following that rule caused me many headaches until Jeff Walther finally got me to understand some SCSI do's and don'ts. (I darn near drove him nuts with my numerous SCSI questions) Sorry Jeff. =) > 1. With the wd drive all alone on the bus, with the wide negotation turn > off, I am able to get disk tools to see it but it will not initialize it, > says it is "not supoprted". Can this be true? Disk Tools? Or do you mean Drive Setup? If it's the latter, then no, it doesn't support all hard drives. You may need to use a different utility, like Hard Disk SpeedTools, or Hard Disk Toolkit for example. Those aren't free though, unfortunately. Hopefully some others will chime in with advice. I haven't used an E100 card in a long time, and I wonder about the control panel settings in the E100 software. I seem to recall some termination setting via that software. -Howie -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
