Insite floptical woes

[adrianw@cassius.ee.usyd.edu.au (Adrian Whichello)]

Hi All,

I've picked up an Insite floptical that was an internal drive in a Mac and I've
stuffed it in an external scsi box for the 2gs. Does anyone know the pinouts on
the jumper block on the back of the floptical so I can set the scsi id? At the
moment it's stuck at scsi id 0.

Also, this thing seems to have problems. I've read and written high density
msdos disks OK (cheque's in the mail, Peter) but floptical disks have problems.
When the 2gs boots, there's a message that it "can't recognize the disk in
device .CVTech.ID0.E with the installed FSTs and do I want to initialize or
Eject." and I click eject and the drive whirrs and then a new icon appears on
the desktop with the floptical disk's name. Clicking on this seems to open it
OK, and I can read and write little things in it (by dragging small files
to/from it, like usual). But a long copy, such as dragging a big folder full of
stuff hangs after a while and requires the computer to be hard rebooted (ie
turning the power off). And sometimes there's more than one device
(.CVTech.ID0.F,G...) complained about during the bootup. I have a ramfast rev
3.01e scsi card (256K byte cache) and the 2gs has 4Mbyte ram. All the FST's are
installed. I've played with various combinations of external scsi terminators,
to no avail.  Anyone got any ideas? Thanks,

Adrian.

ps Apple stuff still for sale on my webpage! And 2 SyQuest 44Mbyte drives (now
where did thay come from :-)

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