<<<You ARE using an LVD terminator, correct? You can't use a regular SCSI terminator for it.
STeve << I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the ongoing SCSI discussion. My recent experience can vouch for the fact that SCSI chains can be hard to troubleshoot. I would check the termination, rejuggle the drives in the chain, and check ID's until it all worked, and think that I had fixed it. Eventually some new problem would crop up, and I would have to start all over again. The latest was freezing on startup, from any startup disk. I pulled all the drives except one, and then put the rest back one at a time until the problem resurfaced. I believe I have now isolated the problem to the Western Digital 18Gig Ultra2 LVD, that came with a 50 pin adapter. I would like to continue to use the drive. I have thought of getting a PCI card that will support the drive on it's own Ultra2 chain, thus eliminating the 50 pin adapter. Anyone care to make some reccomendations? Also, is there anything I should do the drive before I use it again? >> >>> Welllll....um, no. Unless the 50-pin adapter has termination. Since I was running it in the middle of the SCSI chain, I didnt think I needed a terminator. The drive and the adapater were sold by the vendor as something that would behave on the PCI Mac internal SCSI bus. Since my last post, I have RTFM'ed alittle and found that the vendor suggests putting the SCSI id jumpers on the drive itself, not on the adapter. Also advised enable the "D-Target Init" jumper, which will disable Ultra Wide. This info was not sent with the drive, but found on the vendor's website. I will try that tomorrow, and re-install the drive. -- Warren Bowman http://home.attbi.com/~misterbee/ "This tax relief is for everyone who pays income taxes. ... Ninety-two million Americans will keep this year an average of almost $1,100 of their own money." One third of all Americans will never see a dime of that tax cut. Half of all taxpayers will get less than $100 from the Bush tax cut. Those who make more than $1 million a year will get an average cut of $92,000. That may average out to $1,100, but it ain't going to the average family. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
