On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:34:05PM -0600, chien-yu chen wrote:
| I just got a Apple SCSI cdrom. (2x. part number is AppleCD 300i)
|
| however, I can't seem to get it to work on my PC.
|
| from my experience with SCSI, a SCSI is just a SCSI, you can basically hook
| it up to any system as long as you don't hook up differencial to single
| ended, or vice versa. and if you have the right termination and SCSI id.
That's mostly correct.
| My question is, am I right? I even hook up a PC cdrom to a rs6000
| before and it worked great. another question I have is, what's a
| "parity" on a SCSI drive? Never seen that before. And I also saw a
| jumper labeled "Term. Power". which I am assuming is a jumper for
| termination. ( so the 2 termination on my system is, one on the scsi
| board, and one on this term. power thing).
Term power is different than termination. At least one device on the
chain should be providing termination power, but it's ok if multiple
devices do.
It sounds like your setup just may not be terminated properly.
If the other poster is correct and the 2x Mac cdroms just aren't
compliant enough to work with anything else, I'll give you a 4x SCSI
cdrom drive that ought to work better. But you'll have to come get
it, and I live in Oak Hill :)
| I am also using a really old SCSI card, Future domain.
As long as it's PCI you should be good.
You ever seen an Adaptec 1542b? Truly, that's jumper hell. That, and
a SB16 :)
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