[Duo2400] Re: UltraDock 16sc - making CD drive work?

[Eric L. Strobel]

on 2/28/03 1:05 PM, Paul Nelson at artworks at victoria.tc.ca wrote:

>> somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 2/27/03 4:47 PM, the entity known
>> as Mike Rohde transmitted the following from mike at rohdesign.com:
>> 
>>>> OK, I've got my 280c docked to the Ultradock and I just decided to
>>>> hookup an
>>>> external CD drive to run my Norton CD.  But it refuses to recognize the CD
>>>> drive.  As in none of my SCSI utilities even sees it as present on the
>>>> chain!  And yes, I've done some extension checking (the drive isn't seen,
>>>> even when extensions are off).  Also, the same drive setup works just fine
>>>> on my MiniDock.  I've checked termination and even swapped out cables.  So
>>>> I'm wondering if there was some trick to getting the UltraDock to recognize
>>>> a CD drive.  TIA.
>>> 
>>> I wonder if you must have special drivers? I have a small CD reader here for
>>> the Duo that required I use FWB CD Toolkit to boot.
>>> 
>>> I do know it requires a driver to get Ethernet working properly, so I just
>>> made a guess that maybe there's a driver needed for SCSI too.
>>> 
>>> Could be way off though. ;-)
>> 
>> Thanks.  I tried CD SpeedTools driver.  I'll probably try a few others.  But
>> it's suspicious that the CD drive completely doesn't even show up as being
>> on the SCSI chain.
>> 
>> - Eric.
>> --
>> 
>> Eric Strobel (fyzycyst at NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
>> 
> 
> 
> How about an ID# conflict?


Nope.  I'm an old hand at things Mac.  I'd already lined up and executed all
the usual (as well as some unusual) suspects before I posted the question.
This really has to be something peculiar to the UltraDock, as the exact same
setup works with an Apple MiniDock and a SCSI Microdock.  Also, another SCSI
drive (a Syquest 230 cartridge drive) on the chain works just fine, but no
utility even sees the CD drive.  That's what's so bizarre.

Thanks, though.

- Eric.
-- 

Eric Strobel (fyzycyst at NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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