Re: //gs + Apple High Speed SCSI + Quantum Drive == $#!+!!!!

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <249@uplink.cichlid.com>,
Dameon D. Welch <@uplink.cichlid.com> wrote:

>Got an Apple ][gs with an Apple High Speed SCSI card. Hook up my SyQuest 270 to
>it (overkill, but...). Works. Boots off SyQuest, etc, no problems. Now, I add
>in my Quantum 80 meg that I pulled out of my Mac SE/30 (internal drive) and
>take out my SyQuest cartridge (so it won't boot off the SyQuest). All works
>fine. (Boots off the Quantum drive)
>
>Disconnect the SyQuest drive from SCSI chain. (Yes, everything is correctly
>terminated). Now ][gs refuses to recognize the Quantum drive at all (doesn't
>exist according to Apple's SCSI utils).

Betcha money that the Syquest provides terminator power and whatever the 
Quantum is in does not. I had a Quantum in a case that didn't one time and I
ended up with brain dead partitions on it. But they work great in the right
kind of case. I bought one from APS to put a Quantum drive in and I asked
them when I ordered it if it provided terminator power. When you look at it, 
it's pretty obvious - there's a wire going from the power supply to one of
the pins on one of the SCSI connectors on the back of the case.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
shack@crash.cts.com