Re: SCSI Strangeness

[yoshi@CSOS.ORST.EDU (Yoshi)]

Jim Wong (jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: I'm experiencing some bizarre SCSI behavior with my GS; I have an
: Apple High Speed SCSI card, a 20 MB Seagate drive, and a 105 MB
: Quantum disk.  The Seagate is the last device in the SCSI chain and is
: internally terminated.  When I boot from the smaller drive, everything
: seems to work perfectly.  On the other hand, when I switch the drives'
: SCSI id's to boot GS/OS from the Quantum, my machine crashes at
: seemingly random points during the boot process, sometimes dumping me
: into the monitor, sometimes simply hanging, and sometimes generating
: error messages like "Unable to load TS 2..." or "...Apple Disk 3.5
: requires a driver..."; if I press the space bar to see what's being
: loaded, it occasionally dumps inverse characters all over the screen as
: the system heads south.  Booting ProDOS 8 by holding down the pressing
: the "8" key seems to work, however.  Can anyone explain this odd
: behavior?

	Sounds like termination problems on the Quantum, actually. The
	SCSI card could be hosed, who knows. Mine does the same thing
	if I have DMA set to ON on my RF Rev. C...

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