Re: Hard Drive Woes

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Ken Richardson <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...
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>I just purchased a second hard drive from LaCie for my GS. I have a problem.
>My first hard drive come from LRO and is a 52 MEG LPS mechanism.  The new
>hard rive is a 230 Meg Quantum mechanism.  I also have a RamFast with the
>version 3.00g ROM installed.  For some reason, the ramfast only recognizes
>one mechanism at a time, but never both.  If I have the LRO drive off, the
>Ramfast does recognize the LaCie drive, but once I turn the LRO drive on
>(after powering down the system first) the LaCie drive is not accessable
>in the finder or the Ramfast's Utilities.  The order of the drives in the
>chain does not matter either.  I bought a Tsunami drive which has two 25
>pin connectors instead of the 50 pin centronics.  Does the GS need the
>50 pin connectors to function with more than one hard drive??

	Good question, _is_ there a difference between SCSI HDs using a
25-pin (female/D-style) connectors rather than the standard 50-pin centronics? 
I too am about to order a LaCie Tsunami drive, but didn't notice the dual
SCSI connectors in back were non-standard. I assume LaCie ships their drives
with a 25-pin to 25-pin SCSI cable, which will hook up to a RamFast SCSI,
but what if I want to hook up a second SCSI device? Is it going to be compatible
or should I expect problems? (I hope not -- I thought I finally found a suitable
replacement for TMS's Shadow drive which is no longer available!). :/

Mitchell Spector
sb_spec@pavo.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca