10 Sep
2004
10 Sep
'04
4:38 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I have used both Pinnacle Micro REO-650 and Sony SMO
S-501
drives at the same time on the same daisy chain. In general, I rarely
have difficulty when there are multiple Sony drives on the SCSI bus.
I was able to get both onto the same chain successfully on the PCI-based
system with Win2K.
However, the Pinnacle REO drives are probably NOT
cabled correctly
since they usually are a problem, especially when the Pinnacle MO
drive is the first in the chain. If you look inside the box, my experience
has been that the centronics 50-pin connectors are NOT at the ends
of the cable connected to the drive; with my Pinnacle REO-650 drive,
the drive is at the END of the cable and one of the 50-pin centronics
connectors is connected to the middle. While this configuration does
not always cause a problem, even when there are just 2 MO drives
(including 1 Pinnacle REO-650 drive), at this point, I ALWAYS avoid
using any Pinnacle REO-650 drives UNLESS it is just ONE drive on
the SCSI daisy chain.
I didn't have a problem plugging them in as normal.
Sellam, does this information help?
It didn't help directly, but the tips were useful and I appreciate them :)
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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