Re: IIgs doesn't see the SCSI harddrive.........

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Courtney Thomas <ccthomas@flash.net> wrote:

>Thanks for your attention again.
>
>I contacted Seagate and you're right, it won't provide term_pwr. And
>since the Apple High Speed card won't either, apparently this is an
>unworkable duo. 
>
>Unless,.....
>
>I alter the SCSI card, which I'd prefer avoiding, or.........
>
>The drive [ST32550WC] has an adapter [KEY Circuit 0299 - TRANS
>INTERNATIONAL 880-0051 REV B00] with some jumper pins on it but I am
>ignorant as to where I might find jumper info. But Seagate indicated
>that this was a possible source of term_pwr. 
>
>Anyone got any information on these adapter people?

There is a third solution.  Simply add a device to the chain that
will supply term power to the entire chain.  I have a Zip drive
connected to my SCSI chain and it doesn't supply term power
but my hard drive does so the Zip drive works.  The Zip drive
won't work by itself with the Apple HS SCSI card.

So, get an AppleCD 150 or AppleCD 300 CD-ROM drive cheap
or a cheap hard drive of any size that does provide term power,
add that to the chain and voila, your Seagate drive should show
up!