Re: HDD Faq?

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"Al Stramiello" <docal1000@email.msn.com> wrote:

>Well, I searched through the FAQ, and I couldn't answer my own question, so
>here goes:
>
>I have an APPLE SCSI card. I don't know if it's revision C or not. I have a
>40mb Conner drive in a Quality Computers SCSI enclosure.
>The drive is set as device 6 (although I tried other device numbers, also),
>and I believe it is self-terminating (someone told me that if there were a
>series of orange boxes on the card in the enclosure, then it is
>self-terminating).
>
>I had it set up and running in slot 2, and then I changed slot 2 to modem.
>When I changed it back and tried to boot to slot 2, nothing will see or
>recognize the HDD, and I have no way of telling if the card or the HDD is
>the problem, or if it is settings. I tried the card in each of the 7 slots
>in two different ROM-1 machines, and it would not boot or be recognized in
>either, in any slot.
>
>When the HDD is powered on, it spins up normally, and the green power light
>comes on. The red light which is for hdd access, never lights up, even when
>I tell the computer to boot to it.
>
>Suggestions?

Go to the Slots control panel and set the boot slot to Scan.  You must
have it either in Scan or the number of the boot slot for it to boot a
hard drive even if you already have the HDD controller's slot set
to Your Card.