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

[Ole Voss <ole@netrogue.de>]

> AFAIK, the ADU are for SCSI drives only being IDE controllers usually
> had their own firmware and utilities, i.e. Focus, Vulcan, MicroDrive.
> You may need to install the CD-Rom drivers. Also, some drives work
> with GS/OS and some don't. There was a list of do's and don't's on csa2
> at one time, and I never cut and pasted it since I had 2 drives that did
> work.
> What drive are you using and what speed is it?

I'm actually not sure what speed it is, but I presume it's a quad (at least
dual). Anyway I read that the 300eplus should work but may need some
driver... Bother. I'll try the mod first though.



> That is what the mod does, and it won't hurt to have term power
> supplied from 2 sources. Most have said that the mod is necessary,
> but some say they didn't need it. I know the regular Apple SCSI card
> needed it on the IIgs but not on the II+ or the //e. Weird.

Ok, so I'll do that mod tommorrow. Seems like a lead to go on...



Thanks,

Ole.