Re: Any ideas what might be wrong with my Apple SCSI card?

["Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net>]

"Ole Voss" <ole@netrogue.de> wrote in message
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>
> First I have to admit that I don't really know if this card works at all.
I
> got it from ebay (where else) over a year ago and it's been lying around
in
> the cupboard. The board looks in great condition and I was delivered a
very
> clean setup with mint disks and cable.
>
> My setup is a IIGS with Transwarp (and yes I've tried reducing the speed)
> running at 10MHz. Normally my IIGS is packed with cards, but just for the
> sake of testing this thing I removed everything but the Transwarp since I
> don't have the original 65816 anymore.
>
> I've got two devices in external 5.25" cases:
> IBM 540MB DSAS-3540
> Apple CD300e Plus
> Both devices work fine on a PC and the CD-ROM also works on my old MacSE
> (haven't tested the HDD on the mac).
>
> I've got two cables 25pin->Centronics, they've both been tested using a
PC.
>
> I've switched slots many times.
>
> When I start the SCSI utilities (booted straight from the disk) it claims
> that it can't find a HDD. Unfortunately I don't have another SCSI HDD to
> test (besides the one in my MacSE) and I would like to find out if the
card
> actually works before going to any further expenses.
>
> At first I had problems with termination and SCSI-IDs, but that's been
> resolved. My Apple wouldn't boot at all if there was a device on ID 0.
>
> Does anybody know how I can test the card without getting a new HDD?
>
> Any help would be really appreciated :-))

If you have access to GS/OS 6.0.1, boot up the SYSTEM.DISK, eject it
using the eject button on the drive, then insert SYSTEM.TOOLS1 and
run Advanced Disk Utilities ( Adv.Disk.Util ). If you have 2 x 3.5" drives,
then leave the System.Disk in drive 1 and insert the Tools1 disk into drive
number 2. Once the drive is partitioned and initialized, then you can set it
up for 8-bit operation, although you probably won't be able to access all
of the partitions. Also, there is a term-power mod you might need to do to
the card. Here is a link to the file that shows you how.

> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com/AppleCD/SCSITerm.gif

In answer to your other post about CD drives, GS/OS does have drivers for
that, but I have no clue how to use it in 8-bit mode if it can be used that
way
at all. Good Luck.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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