>snip >it looks like I've acquired a $45 boat anchor. >/snip Don't give up hope yet, there's always the tried and true solution suggested earlier by Richard of installing the hard drive into a working Mac with a SCSI chain and installing a "base system" onto that, then putting that hard drive back into your J700.
>snip >ID 7 is saved/used by the motherboard on the J700/S900 and most Apple /clones >/snip More than that, that's the standard for ALL SCSI-2 controllers, though it's a changeable setting on most add-in cards so you can do things like have multiple adapters on the same bus, something I keep forgetting to try... >snip >I've tried several of the above sites and burned floppies. >/snip What are you "burning" them on (I would use the term imaging)? >snip >If anyone could set me straight on termination, I would be much obliged. >/snip I isn't as bad as it seems, since we're only on SCSI2 Narrow. I'm assuming you're using the dedicated internal bus (no external connection), because if you're using the internal/external bus it will 1) be slower, and 2) be more difficult to troubleshoot, especially if one of your devices uses active termination. Make sure that no drives except the one on the end of the SCSI cable (not necessarily the last/first SCSI ID!) are terminated. Do this by making sure none of the devices in the middle have large, removable resistor packs (8-10 pin single row inline pin package (SIP)) installed in a straight line near the 50-pin IDC connector, and by removing any jumpers for "Drive Termination" AND "Termination Power". On the last drive on your chain, make sure either the resistor packs are installed or a jumper is placed over "Drive Termination". Ideally, the S900 should supply termination power to the bus, so you won't need to worry about that. If it still isn't working, enable "Termination Power" on the last device on your chain (same as the one you just terminated). A boot floppy with SCSIProbe will be able to tell you if the bus is terminated properly. It's fairly easy to use, since all you do is open it and it will either give you a "SCSI Bus improperly terminated" error or give you a listing of all the devices it detects attached to your SCSI bus, and will even let you mount the filesystems it finds in most of them. I say most because I'm willing to entertain the possibility that there exists a drive it can't mount, but I haven't found it yet. A note on SCSI ID's: you shouldn't need any jumpers for ID 0, conventionally the jumper block on SCSI devices are read binarily, that is, no jumpers is binary 000 or SCSI ID 0, a jumper in the first block is binary 001 or SCSI ID 1, a jumper in the first and second block is binary 011 or SCSI ID 3, and so on and so forth. Hope someone finds this helpful. -Drew B -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
