i sell 73 gig, 2.5" 10k rpm drive that will drop in and work for $20, /wo SCA to 50 pin adaptor. Comes partitioned and ready to use. let me know. Charles
On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > On 17 Sep, 2013, at 10:42 am, Miguel Nevermind wrote: > >> Guess what? it was really 80 pin. >> >> I got an adapter, but I can't get it to show up in SCSI probe. The drive and >> the adapter both have SCSI id jumpers.I'm not sure if they should be set to >> the same ID or different ID's, but neither seem to work. >> >> Is this drive just too new to work in this mac? I am not above installing >> 8.5 or 9 if that will make the difference. >> Am I making some SCSI voodoo mistake? The chain is terminated at the end of >> the ribbon by the cd drive. > > You have three devices on the chain - the controller, the hard disk, and the > optical drive. All three need to have different IDs. Since you have a > 50-pin cable between them, all of the IDs need to be in the 0-7 range; > generally the controller gets ID 7, the primary hard disk gets ID 0, and the > optical drive gets ID 3. > > Do you have a terminator on the bus at either end? It is sometimes built > into a drive but is selectable with a jumper or a pluggable resistor bank. > Since you have more than two devices on the bus, you probably should have a > terminator at each end of the bus - this will be at the optical drive *and* > at the controller card. If the card doesn't have a built-in terminator, add > one to the external port - it's part of the same bus, usually. > > Occasionally "wide SCSI" drives have trouble talking to "narrow SCSI" buses. > (They shouldn't per spec, but...) If nothing else helps, you might have run > into that problem. Or, y'know, the drive might be a dud. > > - Jonathan Morton > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
