| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 1 May 2001 at 00:40:34 |
| Subject: | Re: How I love my SCSI life.... |
Hi Everybody,
> Andrew Crowe said,
>
>>> I added a 500mb SCSI internal hard drive that used to be in my
>>> wife's old work computer. I put the thing in, booted up, and ran
>>> HDInstTools to attempt to partition the thing. The Amiga reset
>>> itself before I could partition, and all of a sudden it wouldn't
>>> boot. When I try to boot with the SCSI HD installed, my main IDE
note "IDE"
>>> drive just clicks a few times and then stops, although its motors
>>> whirr away nicely. I take out the SCSI hard drive, problem gone.
>
>> Well, it can't be the drives clashing as they're on different
>> interfaces,
>
> It could ve a SCSI ID clash. Without a jumper diagram for the drive,
> there's no way of knowing what ID it's set to. Try the manufacturers
> web site, or change the IDs on the Zip and CDRW to make sure there's
> no clash.
Um, I can't see why the scsi ID clash would affect an IDE drive
> You don't say wherein the chain the drive is. If it's in the middle
> it should not be terminated, if it's at the end, have you removed
> whatever termination was there before?
Maybe, except that drive causing the problems isn't in the /SCSI/
chain ;)
See ya :)
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