Thanks for all the suggestions, I made a boot disk with Mount Everything
AND SCSI probe and neither saw the hard drive (they both saw the CPU at SCSI
7), I even tried making a super tiny System 6 disk with the Iomega driver on
it to hook up my zip drive (which had a load of other utilities on it). All
to no avail. I'm afraid I might have blown it....I can put in another hard
drive but my big question is - could I have fouled up something key on the
mobo (like the ROM) and effectively killed my SE 30?
Yours Hopefully
Dan
On 9/20/02 12:08 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan,
>
> There are a few issues here to consider.
>
> 1) Make sure that the SCSI ID of the external drive does
> not conflict with any other device on the bus. The
> internal HD is normally ID 0, and the Bus controller is
> always (on the SE/30) ID 7.
>
> 2) While terminating the external drive is important to
> proper operation of the bus, it is possible that the
> external drive is already terminated. If the external
> drive was originally an internal drive, it would likely
> have termination enabled (either via a jumper or by
> resistor packs). Excessive termination will cause the
> SCSI bus signal levels to be reduced to a point where
> the bus will likely not work. You may also need to have
> the drive supply termination power to the bus. This
> should not be needed though.
>
> 3) It is critical that any external devices be powered
> up and ready to accept SCSI commands before powering up
> the computer. Drives can have a delayed startup
> (generally drive ID # X 5 or 10 seconds) and the drive
> must have completely initialized itself before it will
> respond to the bus. In addition, drives on the Mac
> should not have the (wait for) attention jumper set.
>
> 4) I am not too sure about the OS-X minimum drive size.
> This has come up before, but I have never seen it. My
> beige G-3 running 10.1.x has no problem "logging onto"
> my Q-950 with a 250 MB drive. If I get a chance I will
> try with a smaller drive this weekend (I think my
> smallest drive is around 20 MB). Are you certain that
> you have file sharing turned on? Does the drive also
> have sharing enabled? Both steps need to be completed
> before you will see the drive.
>
> Derek
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