Hi, Are you using a scsi terminater? there are 3 sets of pins down by your hard drive connects internally, with no jumpers on them ,the drive is ID 0 , default for internal scsi drives, if you use it with the g3 , jumper the id so you don't confict with it's internal drive The cacle can cause problems to. Bobby
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:05 PM, zeroid <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello: > > A friend's IIci (running OS 7.1) freezes whenever either a SCSI > external hard drive or zip drive is connected. If I recall correctly, > this occurs even when the SCSI device is off--merely connecting the > cable seems to have a bad influence. Both of the SCSI devices work > fine with a beige G3 running OS 8.6. > > I'm not well versed in the voodoo which is SCSI. The external hard > drive has a selector for setting the device number (how do I find the > SCSI number of the IIci itself?) but the zip drive doesn't. > > The ultimate aim is to clone the possibly failing internal hard > drive's contents. The IIci has a 200MB hard drive so copying to > floppies is impractical. Is it feasible to swap the IIci's hard drive > into the external case and then copy it onto the beige G3? What type > of connector & pin number does the IIci hard drive have? > > Thank you for any help. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
