[Duo2400] Re: Not starting except when on SCSI chain

Paul Nelson artworks at victoria.tc.ca
Fri Sep 26 10:39:14 PDT 2003


At 9:21 AM -0700 9/26/2003, Christoph Pistor wrote:
>It seems that I isolated my problem to be caused by the SCSI connector.
>I must have blown something pulling the cord off while the machine was
>on. The internal drive starts fine as long as something terminated (like
>a Zip drive is attached). It just does not start up when there is
>nothing inside the connector. Does anybody know how the internal SCSI
>termination of a PB180c works, or where I can find stuff about it? Could
>it be just a fuse of some sort? Does the PB provide active termination
>internally?

	I've had this trouble with an SE/30 that I put a new 2 gig drive
in, which I think was unterminated.  The 3.5 drives had three little
resistors on the bottom which had termination function.  You might get
better info on the LEM Powerbook list.
Paul




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