Re: SCSI Gurus: HELP!

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

snelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson) writes:

[entire original article NOT quoted this time]

>It sounds like you need terminator power on the Quantum.  Evidently the
>Seagate is supplying power to the bus so the SCSI chain works, but the
>Quantum isn't, so it doesn't work alone.  Funny thing, I thought the Ramfast
>was supposed to supply power to the bus.  Apple SCSI cards do not, so a
>device on the chain needs to supply it.  How, you ask?  I don't know, but
>I use a Quantum 105 in a external case with an Apple HS SCSI card and it
>boots fine!  So there must be some way of telling the Quantum to supply
>bus power, a jumper somewhere perhaps.  I guess I was lucky that mine came
>configured OK, and I never had to learn how to power a SCSI bus.  But it
>does work, because mine _does_ work.  Don't give up, keep trying.

This is a function of the case housing the drive. I've had Quantum LPS drives
that did and did not work before. I had a 52 mb in a Mac Bottom SCSI case
which worked fine on a Mac but did not work on my HS SCSI equipped IIgs. I
now have a 105 in an APS case which works great. I asked the APS guys if the
case would supply terminator power when I ordered it. The order taker didn't
know right off and it took a few attempts to get him to understand what I was
asking. Guess they're used to all those appliance-using customers.
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Randy Shackelford                              "That's right, keep dancing
shack@pro-ict.cts.com                           on the minefield"
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