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