Subject: Re: SCSI troubles
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 15:07:00 MST
At 1:09 PM -0800 10/29/01, Kjell Konis wrote:
>I just bought a 9500MP that came with two hard drives (both apple
>branded), a 1 gig with ID 0 and a 4 gig with ID 4 and a CDrom with ID 3.
>I have another 4 gig non apple drive that I want to use instead of the 1
>gig drive. So I installed OS9 on a 500MB HFS partition of the 4 gig apple
>drive and gave it ID 0 and I put the non apple 4 gig drive in with ID 4.
>When I booted the computer hung with a smiley mac in the center of the
>screen. When I booted off a CD the computer got as far a loading the
>finder but then hung when it was tring to mount the hard drives. So I
>removed the 4 gig non apple drive because I thought I might have a SCSI
>conflict (I didn't though) and I had the same problem, the computer hangs
>as soon it tries to mount the 4 gig apple drive. For some reason I put
>the 1 gig drive back in with ID 4 and that made everything work. I could
>boot OS9 off the 4 gig apple drive (and I managed to install YDL2 on it).
>So, long story short, the 4 gig apple drive only works when the 1 gig
>apple drive is also on the chain. The 1 gig drive and the 4 gig non-apple
>drive each work by themselves. Any ideas/suggestions as to what's going
>on would be appreciated.
Have you been paying attention to proper termination? Only the last
device on the chain should have termination enabled.
-- Tim Seufert
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