Subject: Re: Odd Lombard Failures ...Please Help!
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 11:09:13 MST
You are correct about the issue with two separate SCSI cables. Both have
HDI30 connectors on one end, but one has 29 pins and the other 30. If the
30 pin version is used for connecting external devices, there is sure to
be lots of trouble ;)
There is an article covering this at...
http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n13611
Jim
Dennis Murphy's bits of Sat, 4 Mar 2000 translated to:
>Please ignore me for sounding stupid, but which SCSI cable are you using with
>the Lombard?
>
>IIRC, there were two kinds of SCSI cables for the Mac PowerBooks (I don't have
>a Lombard, but I assume it has the funky square SCSI connector?)
>
>There was one cable designed to plug SCSI devices into the
>PowerBook, and another to allow the PowerBook to act as an
>external SCSI device to another system.
>
>Are you sure you have the right cable? Using the wrong one
>can sometimes cause this kind of problem, IIRC.
>
>Again, I haven't used any external PowerBook SCSI cables in
>a while, but I remember this sort of thing from a while back...
>
>
>---
> Dennis Murphy
> Montclair State University
> College of Science & Mathematics
> SCInet Support & Development Group
> dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu
> (973)655-5414
>
>> > I am beginning to suspect a hardware problem with my Lombard. If anyone could
>> > tell me whether these problems are unusual, I'd appreciate it:
>> >
>> > Details: 64Mb RAM, 4Gb hd, 2 HFS partitons, 1 root, 1 swap. YDL 1.1 CS,
>> > totally untouched install, Mac OS 8.6
>> >
>> > In Mac OS *or* Linux: The system freezes when attempting to read an external
>> > SCSI device. Needs to be hard-rebooted (using the kill button recessed into the
>> > back of the case). After reboot, if SCSI device is plugged into computer (even
>> > if it's not powered on), the system hangs before the "happy mac."
>> >
>> > Neither Linux nor Mac OS can recognize my Epson Stylus Photo 750 printer.
>> > Another machine recognizes it fine, with the same cable.
>> >
>> > System hangs on 'booting..." in Linux. Literally; that's all that appears
>> > before it freezes. Or, boots fine, won't start X. The "Mysteriously Murdered"
>> > error. (XConfig seemed to run fine during install.) *Or* X runs fine. No
>> > rhyme or reason to any of these variants. Sometimes it hangs when I "shutdown."
>> > Sometimes not. It won't boot at all in "single" mode, ever. I've never managed
>> > to use it long enough to shut it down gracefully.
>> >
>> > I know it isn't just YDL; I've installed and run it on another machine, fine.
>> >
>> > I've got the correct partition set in BootX. Triple-checked it.
>> >
>> > I've zapped PRAM, reformatted the hard drive *four* times, and I just redid the
>> > Linux partition table, wiped it clean, restarted the installer, and installed a
>> > default system; doesn't boot at all, regardless of whether it's at startup or
>> > from BootX App. :/
>> >
>> > To make matters worse, the lack of SCSI access means I can't back my system up
>> > here. I have to travel 200 miles to my office location with an ethernet tape
>> > backup system. Not happening until March 24th or so.
>> >
>> >
>> > Other Lombard users: Any of this sound familiar? It's still under warranty, I
>> > can have it serviced if it *is* a hardware problem. If. :)
>> >
>> >
>> > Help?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance...
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jazz
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dan
>>
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>
>
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