On Thursday, Nov 7, 2002, at 01:05 Europe/London, Alan O'Neil wrote: > This 'Atlas II 3.5" Series' drive is making me angry. It is a 68pin > wide > drive, and I do have the adapter to make it fit the internal ribbon > cable. However, I see no place on the drive for termination resistors > to > go, and there are 22 juumper configurations (you may be thinking, > "those > aren't jumpers! That's an IDE drive! Idiot!") in two rows. The drive > has > stated on it what these various pins do, but they are very confusing, > and I got the drive as-is for a couple bucks, so no manual.
Look it up on Maxtor's product archive site. It's too early in the morning for any sort of useful effort on my part (WAKE UP MARK, U FOOL!!!) but there is a link to it in FlatPackMacs. IIRC you may need a 'terminating' 68-pin->50-pin adapter. I have one of those that i use for attaching 68-pin drives to older busses for recovery work and it seems to work fine. The crux or your problem is that 68-pin drives don't HAVE any termination facilities, the termination is usually either on the end of the cable or a module that plus into the last plug. > I'll try > putting it in an external case and manually terminate it (or get an > internal terminator block to put on the end of my internal 50pin > cable?) Yeh. That might well do it, maybe... -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -The Matrix -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:vintage.macs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:vintage.macs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
