Re: SCSI HD connection questions, from a Complete Idiot[tm]

[vsp@unix3.netaxs.com (have clue--will travel)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com> wrote:
>
>It's a high speed SCSI if it says 1990 on it.
>

Sounds right.  I got my hands on an Apple Service SCSI Card Test disk,
which couldn't find anything wrong with the card itself.  One less thing
to worry about, I suppose...

The drive is a 40MB SCSI from Conner Peripherals, FYI.  The case is of
unknown manufacture at this time, but the fan whirs nicely and the lights
come on when I turn it on, and the 50-to-25 cable fit perfectly on both ends.
However, I installed the generic SCSI update on system disks for 5.0.4 and
6.0.1 and still have no recognition of the drive's existence.

The odd timeout problem is, most likely, the aforementioned searching-for-
device delay.  

This week sometime, I'll bring it in so a friend of mine can plug it into
his Pentium; if that works, I'll at least know it's not a dead drive.
Meanwhile, though, I'm stumped as to what to do next.  If the HS SCSI
card doesn't supply terminator power, I'm not sure if my case does; it has
an internal terminator, so I'd think so, but who knows?  At any rate, I'm
at a loss as to what to try next.

			jeff.  who can live with 40MB.  really.
 


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