Re: CD ROM failure

[jemorti@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Jack Mortimer - E81)]

In article <1994Jan19.032638.6782@iitmax.iit.edu>, CRAFJAY@minna.acc.iit.edu (Jay Craft) writes:
|> 
|> When I boot the computer, both scsi devices power up, but they
|> don't boot.  Instead, my 3.5 drive boots!  Using the Apple SCSI
|> utilities, it shows the CD-ROM as drive 1 with my HD partitions
|> as 2,3,4.  It's apparently trying to boot the CD-ROM, and 
|> changing the SCSI ID numbers on either device and the card don't
|> seem to work (unless I missed something).  The hard drive and 
|> CD-ROM show up on Copy // Plus (CDROM as S7 D1, HD as S7 D2).
|> 
|> To get my computer to startup, I have to turn the CDROM off with
|> no CD until the "Welcome to //GS" screen, and then I can turn it
|> on.  The CD-Remote plays audio CDs, but since I can't boot the
|> system properly I can't use it for anything else... Can anyone
|> help?
|> 
|> Also, the CD-ROM may have been damaged by a wicked SCSI chain of
|> some sort, but it's obviously not totally dead...
|> 
Jay,
	I would check the control panel to see where the computer is being
told to boot from. Since it drops through to the 3.5 sometimes, I suspect
that your machine is set to scan. 
	It seems to me that you need to find a way to get your HD to 
register as S7 D1. I would have thought that having the SCSI id numbers
appropriately set so that the HD is closer to the computer number than the
CD is would have changed that. (you do power down, change the number, and
then power up, don't you?)
	Good luck.
Jack Mortimer
jemorti@relay.nswc.navy.mil