At 09:26 -0500 on 05/09/01, Brian wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
>> Set the SCSI ID to 0, pull all three ID jumpers off.
>> You want termination enabled, might have to find
>> termination resistor packs if the drive is older.
>
>> You'll also want to set the drive to provide
>> termination power to the bus and to itself.
>> (Never have more than two devices providing
>> termination power to the bus. One internal and
>> one external, if any, is fine.)
>
>I've set the ID to 0 (I assumed since I couldn't find any jumpers on the
>drive that came out it was 0) and I've tried termination in all 3
>positions. Let's go a little farther then... I set up the hard drive and
>I boot up. I get the blinking "?" so I wait a little bit, then I popped
>in the System 7.0.1 Install disk. It boots up, but doesn't give me an
>option to change disk. is it possible that System 7.0.1 isn't seeing my
>drive even if it's set up correctly?
Mebbe. Tried a *hacked* copy of HD SC Setup to reformat? If the drive
doesn't have proper drivers on it, the Install program won't see it.
>Kudos to The Pickle... your FAQ is by far the most insightful
>documentation I've seen on Macs so far. I guess the next place to start
Thanks :)
>looking is for a terminator. I don't have an internal one, but I have
>tons of external SCSI stuff including terminators. Is there anything
>special I have to do to use the primary HD as external? I'm assuming just
>set ID to 0, slap on the terminator and power up.
Well, that, and put it in an external case :) The external terminators
don't fit the internal cable so well :)
p
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