http://www.scsipro.com/ Granite Digital makes the best cables etc. If you use them most SCSI weirdness will never effect you.

UltraSpec Cables also makes excellent SCSI stuff -- http://www.ultraspec.com Mike Ford said: - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [- ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

My problems have always been traced to a tired tech (me) not paying attention to some drive's ID jumpers being different on different type cdroms, hard drives, etc. I no longer use the setting dials unless the drive came with the case that has the dial as they have screwed me up as well. Temrinators can be a pain too even for experinced people at times. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Hellige -> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:38 PM -> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> Subject: Re: 2.88 MB floppy drive, scsi? -> -> -> > >There -> >>are those that dislike fooling with the SCSI 'voodoo' though. -> > -> >Once you get the dance steps down, and realize that you have to -> sacrifice -> >a lamb, not a chicken... the SCSI gods stop causing problems. :-) -> -> I've had my share of oddly behaving SCSI chains but in the -> end, most could be traced to cable problems. Then there's always my -> PS/2 with the built-in ESDI and my attempt at using an IBM SCSI -> board. No matter what I did, the two conflicted until I pulled the -> BIOS off of the SCSI board. Other than losing the ability to boot -> from it, it works great with CD-ROMs and hard disks. -> -> Jeff -> -- -> Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File -> http://www.cchaven.com -> http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757 -> ->