Re: Iomega and Apple HS Scsi

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

The Mangler (dayen@sfsu.edu) wrote:

: I've been having troubles with trying to use an Iomega Zipdrive on my gs.
: At first I thought it was a defective disk that was damaged.  Now I
: narrowed the problem to either my scsi interface or zipdrive.

: I talked to people that successfully used a Zipdrive with a RamFast card.
: Is it my interface that's causing all the I/O error and damage to my
: Zipdisks?  I have one of those HS Apple Scsi cards.

Zip drives don't supply terminator power, and the HS SCSI doesn't either out
the box. I hear you can modify it to do so. Something on the SCSI bus has
to supply terminator power, either the CPU or another device. You couldn't 
use a Zip alone on a Mac Plus or Powerbook for the same reason. The result
is funky I/O errors and the dead Mac with X's for eyes in the case of the 
Plus.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net