Hello All, It seems I'm currently stuck in the computing equivalent of the Bosnian conflict. IOW: I'd like to leave, but don't seem to know how to. @_@
I've been offered a couple of external drives. The kicker is that they're SCSI-2 (possibly -3) drives. I assume that in order to get these to work in my largely stock 9600 box I'd have to sink additional money into a new SCSI card rather than running it off of the original built-in DB25 port. If anyone has experience running SCSI-2/3 gear off of their 9600, please tell me the steps you went through to do so and (very important) the costs involved. I'm afraid my knowledge of anything beyond the original SCSI is nil because I had planned on simply jumping into IDE drives from here. While we're on the subject of money pits, I'm also having problems mounting Jaz carts. I just uncrated about 6 carts that I had (eventually) planned to use to archive my drive before decomissioning it. Of course, of the six, I can only get *one* cart to mount. Getting the machine to recognize the drive itself is not a problem, just the carts. Is there some painfully obvious step I'm overlooking to get the other 5 to mount properly? I have always treated Zips/Jaz carts as large floppies, I'm afraid. I remember reading a thread on Zip drives here (long ago) in which a poster said that there were problems moving Zip disks from the original drive to another. It seems that the second drive would not read the disks. The poster went on to state that, somehow, it never occurred to Iomega that an end user would ever want to move Zip disks between drives. Assuming that their assertion is correct, is the same problem inherent in Jaz carts/drives? The other possibility is that the carts are non-viable. Unfortunately, all of them were shipped to me in the post. I was always led to understand that Jaz carts were terribly fragile because they were, basically, the guts of a HD put into the a plastic cartridge. I thought that they might at least survive a trip through the post in their plastic albums (and additional packing material, of course), but I may have been wrong on that. This seems to be my time for being wrong on a lot of things. [sigh] Among my many personal defects, I have an unhappy penchant for having things shipped to me and then simply letting them sit there until I sweatily, desperately need them. Kids: don't try this at home. ¬_¬ Best, James Fraser -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
