on 11/14/05 4:35 PM, Jeff Walther at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:58:42 -0600 >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> on 11/14/05 7:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >>> internal drives SCSI jumpers to a higher ID? I don't know what the external >>> drive is set to (old CAi external w/software scsi control). > > I have seen options for setting the SCSI ID using software, however, > I think that only works with drives which have the option built into > their firmware, and that was (I believe) limited to certain Quantum > drives. I would be sure to set that drive's SCSI ID using a good old > fashioned jumper.
I agree. Using the switches on the back of an external enclosure or trying to set an ID via software is no substitute for setting the jumpers manually. >> My experience has been that when the Mac tries to boot with SCSI drives with >> duplicate ID's, it just hangs - it won't go to the flashing question mark. > > There are a couple of other possibilities which come up. Your > experience is probably the most common, however, duplicated SCSI IDs > sometimes cause one of the disks to appear about 8 times on the > desktop. That's the wierdest. Another possibility is that one of > the two disks appears and the other doesn't. > > Jeff Walther In more than 20 years of dealing with SCSI I've never seen that. Wild! I did a little SCSI before I met a Mac - I once designed a fully-populated triple-wide VME Eurocard SCSI controller for a Navy SONAR system with TTL and PAL components only to have a NCR single-chip solution released within days after getting the board working and sent off to production. Damn, I'm showing my age. Rick -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
