Re: Need help hooking up old SCSI drives

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <1102520489.479541.299790@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
 <colin_tokyo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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:

Do you know offhand if that drive supplies termination power?  If it
doesn't, another device on the bus must supply it.  (If your terminator has
an LED on it, it should light up if termination power is present.)  If your
drive is the only device on the bus and it won't supply termination power,
you can modify your SCSI card to supply termination power:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/R009SCSIMOD.GIF

(In theory, this can cause your SCSI card to exceed the expansion-bus power
limit.  In practice, this is rarely a problem.)

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