Re: [sgroup] SCSI HD won't boot

Early scsi is a pain in the arse. If you have old cables, well, you're not helping...or long cables, it doesn't like long cables, or cheap ones for that matter, you get more errors and slower transfers with cheap cables. Cheap AND old AND long, well , you've got no chance!! Make sure the drive isn't terminated internally with those little resistor packs, ie open up the drive case and look at the bottom of the drive for them. Try to use active terminators rather than passive, they're better. Two terminations are required, one at the start and one at the end, so one at sampler and one on drive. Too much is no good as is too little. Some samplers will require you to turn the term on in s/w. Some will have two big scsi plugs, one should have a terminator in. Two terminations are required, if you need only one then it's not working correctly or there is one which you don't know about. More or less terminations means that something is wrong. Did I say that twice.... Power drives first then hosts. But like I say, early SCSI is a pain in the arse. 8 bit unbalanced short distance slow transfer current loop. Of course it could also be a drive that's not supported, you can't just chuck any old drive on there you know... Or you might have an ID clash, two devices wit the same ID, that's no good. Change one. Like an S1000 on ID 5 with a drive on ID 5... Does the sampler have an internal drive? That's probably terminated with the little resistor packs. Remove the term on that if you're hooking up an external drive, or turn m/board term off in s/w. That might work. On 15 May 2006, at 13:49, Dave wrote: