Re: Need help hooking up old SCSI drives

[colin_tokyo@hotmail.com]

Ugh!

Despite everyone's help, I'm having a heckuva time getting any of my
old SCSI drives to work on my IIGS and Apple high-speed SCSI card. I
mounted an old Apple-branded Quantum 2GB inside an external case, set
the SCSI ID manually to 6, turned off internal drive termination, and
used a physical SCSI terminator on it. Here's what's happening:

-The Advanced Disk Utility program from GS/OS 6.0.1 does not "see" the
drive.

-GS/OS will randomly offer to format the drive, but it hangs when it
attempts to format it.

-The ProDOS 8 Apple hi-speed SCSI card utilities disc recognizes the
drive, but gives me an "I/O Error" whenever I try to format/partition.

I've tried using the Quantum 2GB, along with an ancient HP SCSI drive
pulled out of another internal HDD that worked with a IIGS long ago,
AND even an Apple-branded 250MB drive, none of which work.

Oi, for the convenience of IDE... any advice as to where I'm going
wrong?

CW

> Hi all,
>
> I need to mount one (of two) old SCSI hard disks inside an external
> case so I can use it alongside my old Apple IIGS. The plus side is I
> have a Seagate and a Quantum ready for use; the bad side is I have
> zero idea where to hook up the two wires for termination and the
> power/read LEDs. Despite the fact that the pinouts are printed on the
> drive itself, I am too stupid to figure them out (hangs head in
> shame).
>
> However, I took pictures and put 'em here:
> http://www.tokyopia.com/colin/oldhdds/thumbs_d/thumbs_p.html
>
> Can someone tell me just where (and IF it's possible to) to stick the
> two sets of cables? I really do need to be able to manually set
> termination because it's gonna be one of several devices on a chain.
> 
> An old Apple II nerd thanks you kindly.
> 
> Colin