7 Jul
2006
7 Jul
'06
8:30 a.m.
You need one with 512 byte/sector capability. A good rule of thumb,
if it will boot a Sgi or Sun box, it will boot a NeXT. I use Toshiba's
on my NeXT equipment. The external SCSI chain will auto sense the
presence of the external device, so just terminate the external drive
and everything will be cool. I've always used SCSI ID 6 for my CD-ROM
- why I don't know but it's always worked for me. The default SCSI ID
of the internal drive is 1.
The internal drive is on the internal leg of the bus, so it's
termination is seperate from the external leg of the bus.
I've never tried to run more than 32mb in a non-Turbo chipset slab. I
recently got some 16mb SIMMS. Maybe I should experiment.
On 7/7/06, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
I'm just about to stick an OS on the newly-acquired NeXT Slab (thanks to local
Freecycle list for providing, and Witchy for picking it up!)
Questions:
CDROM - do I need a 2048 bytes/sector one or 512 bytes/sector? (I have both
available, but it just saves me guessing the type!)
SCSI bus - in order to hang a (terminated, obviously) CDROM off the external
SCSI connector, do I need to enable/disable termination on the system board
somewhere, and/or enable/disable termination on the internal drive? (I'm not
sure if the internal drive is one end of the SCSI bus, or just a short spur
off the bus)
Memory - Can these things take more than 32MB? Purely curious - I don't even
know if such a thing as an 8MB 30 pin SIMM exists (this Slab currently has 8 x
4MB modules in it)
(I did get manuals with this, but they're right at the bottom of everything
else that's in the car!)
cheers
Jules
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