You might also check that either of the SCSI cable is not a dual purpose
cable - there are many made that offer two options, one for SCSI docking
which will result in the diamond, and another that would allow for SCSI
devices. Its unlikely if they are stock cables and therefore the ID is
proabaly the best bet.... make sure the scanner, the CD-ROM have unique
SCSI ID's.
andrew
At 09:05 Tuesday 25/07/00 , you wrote:
>corina -
>
>the diamond marching 2 on powerbooks means that it is in scsi disk mode,
>ie it is trying to be an auxiliary hard disk on another system. i have
>done this so that i can quickly copy files from my G3 to my PB 165. so
>you might want to look into scsi ID conflicts. bob
>
>>Hi all!
>>
>>I wrote in a while ago because I was having some weird problems with my
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>>BUT now I have a new problem. I just found out that since installing my
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>>drive! When I try to power up with the cd-rom attached, my computer
>>doesn't boot and instead I get this icon that marches across my screen. It
>>looks like a diamond shape with a 2 in the middle. I uninstalled and
>>reinstalled my cd-rom driver and software in case the scanner installation
>>had disabled or overwritten it, but it didn't help.
>>
>>The cd-rom drive has a 50-pin centronics connection, and the new scanner is
>>a "scsi 2" with a DB-25. Could my problem be that the scanner software
>>made it so my computer can only recognise scsi 2 devices? If so that's
>>obviously a problem! (Because I intend to use both, although not connected
>>at the same time.) Oh, and all the troubleshooting stuff for the scanner
>>is on the installation CD, which I now can't access. :-P
>>
>>Any ideas about what's going on or what I can do?
>>
>>Corina
>>
>>
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