Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Benson
On Apr 22, 2004, at 07:03 am, Gregg Eshelman wrote: --- Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone clear up a mystery for me... Someone i was talking to was trying to convince me that all Macs with external SCSI ports have 2 SCSI buses. The thing was he based his argument on the Q950 whic

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- Mark Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone clear up a mystery for me... > > Someone i was talking to was trying to convince me > that all Macs with > external SCSI ports have 2 SCSI buses. The thing was > he based his > argument on the Q950 which is a bit of an exception > to most

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:44:11AM +0800, John Niven wrote: > Yes, I understand but doesn't that mean that the motherboard already > has a terminator built in? So if I used an internal (terminated) drive, > and an external (terminated) chain, I would have: > > Term <-> drive <-> Term (MB) <-> dr

Re: MacTV New HD Problem

2004-04-21 Thread Gregg Eshelman
--- SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The original 160mb hard drive in my MacTV died. The > smallest thing I > could get was 4gb. My OS 7.5.3 (boot) CD does not > recognize that there is > a new hard drive at all. You either need a 3rd party formatter app or use Res Edit to hack Apple's Drive

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread John Niven
Thanks Byron, see comments below... On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:11:40AM +0800, John Niven wrote: 1) If you want to use the second bus to connect to a second internal drive, should that drive be terminated, and if so, doe

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:11:40AM +0800, John Niven wrote: > 1) If you want to use the second bus to connect to a second internal > drive, should that drive be terminated, and if so, does that mean you > cannot connect an external SCSI device? My idea was to set up a second > HD as a mirror. T

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread John Niven
On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 07:40 AM, Jim Foster wrote: On 21-Apr-04, at 7:32 PM, Mark Benson wrote: I was under the impression that, with a few possible exceptions, all 68k MAcs were single bus. I think you are on the right track. I have a Quadra 950, and it is the first Mac I ever owned

Re: Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread Jim Foster
On 21-Apr-04, at 7:32 PM, Mark Benson wrote: I was under the impression that, with a few possible exceptions, all 68k MAcs were single bus. I think you are on the right track. I have a Quadra 950, and it is the first Mac I ever owned that has dual SCSI buses. Everything else has just had a sing

Twin or Single SCSI Bus

2004-04-21 Thread Mark Benson
Can someone clear up a mystery for me... Someone i was talking to was trying to convince me that all Macs with external SCSI ports have 2 SCSI buses. The thing was he based his argument on the Q950 which is a bit of an exception to most rules. I was under the impression that, with a few possibl

Re: Ethernet for a Classic II

2004-04-21 Thread Michael Hackett
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:40:33 -0700 Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:55 AM -0700 4/21/04, Timothy Virkkala wrote: > >LocalTalk Bridge doesn't allow TCP/IP? Hmmm. > > LTB will pass MacIP packets (IP inside AppleTalk packets) but it > won't convert them to IP over Ethernet. For that

Re: Ethernet for a Classic II

2004-04-21 Thread Clark Martin
At 8:55 AM -0700 4/21/04, Timothy Virkkala wrote: Mark Benson, you wrote: Bit of a slow/weird way to go about it but if you only need pure Appletalk access (not TCP/IP) you can use a Localtalk bridge, either on another classic era Mac or a hardware box. I knew about that option, and that's pro

MacTV New HD Problem

2004-04-21 Thread SteveC
The original 160mb hard drive in my MacTV died. The smallest thing I could get was 4gb. My OS 7.5.3 (boot) CD does not recognize that there is a new hard drive at all. The drive spins up, so I know at least it's installed correctly and getting power. I guess I also know there is no SCSI ID conf

Re: Ethernet for a Classic II

2004-04-21 Thread Timothy Virkkala
Mark Benson, you wrote: > Bit of a slow/weird way to go about it but if you only need pure Appletalk > access (not TCP/IP) you can use a Localtalk bridge, either on another classic > era Mac or a hardware box. I knew about that option, and that's probably what I'll do! LocalTalk Bridge doesn't a