From: Will S: "First off Welcome to the Supermac list! I think you'll like your J700 once you get it to work ;-) I'm very happy with mine. I'd like to add a bit to what others have already said. A couple of things to check. As someone else said you maybe having SCSI Termination issues. On a J700 the CD rom player is normally set as SCSI ID 3 and the boot hard drive ID 0. You can use other ID numbers but that is the standard way. ID 7 is saved/used by the motherboard on the J700/S900 and most Apple /clones with SCSI boot drives from the factory. Normal way is to plug the hard drive to the end of the SCSI cable and the CDrom in the middle which means it gets to be the terminated hardware. There is a small pin on the back of the CDROM drive for setting Term and also the ID number. A large number of J700 machines came from the factory with 8x CDROM players. An unknown but fair amount of these 8x drives can not boot any CD except for the UMAX system disks that came with the machines. Early system disks were OS 7.6 and the newer ones were 8.0. The people lucky enough to have CD players that will boot a system disk by putting it in the drive and restarting are perhaps as in the past going to say I'm mistaken. I wish i were but I'm not ;-) They are making the mistake of thinking all machines and hardware works the same. I wish that were true but it's not . Now some of these CD players can be made to boot by removing the TERM power jumper pin(not to be confused with the Termination jumper pin) from the back but it didn't work on my 8x cd player nor many other peoples. It did however work like a charm on my 24x that came with my C500."
No go with the TERM power jumper removed. Same old frozen screen. The jumper on the ID was a double jumper covering 1 & 2 (I'm hoping this means "= 3"?). The hard drive didn't have a jumper on the ID even though there is a setting for "SCSI IDO" so maybe I'll borrow a jumper off another hard drive and give it a go. This doesn't explain why it won't even boot from a floppy, though. . . - Scott ------------------------------ To Alan & Will: I, too, have had mixed results with burned copies of bootable disks. I'll keep plugging away, but so far it looks like I've acquired a $45 boat anchor. Again, thanks very much, everyone! - Scott (part 3) -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
