PowerComputing Clone with CD-ROM issues on YDL Install

[Seth Dimbert]

Tim,

Yeah, you're right - it's SCSI. The CR-ROM and (now) three HDD's are all on
the SCSI Bus, with the biggest (empty) drive terminated. Right now, the Mac
OS can see all four drives.

Lemme ask this: Does the terminated drive need to be at the physical end of
the SCSI chain? Right now, the ribbon cable runs from the Bus, through two
HDD's, into the terminated HDD then to the CD-ROM.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

-SD

On 6/18/03 10:19 AM, "Larson, Timothy E." <Larson.Timothy1@mayo.edu> wrote:

> Seth,
> 
> I had a similar problem the other day with installing 2.3 on my G3/300.
> I have IDE drives whereas I'm pretty sure your clone uses SCSI, so this may
> not be helpful.  
> What I ended up doing was changing either the CD or the HD from master to
> slave.  
> (I don't recally exactly how I ended up.
> I just kept changing them until a combination worked.)
> This allowed it to "see" the CD in the drive.
> I don't understand why I had to do this, because I think they are on different
> busses anyway.  
> If the MacOS can see it, you should have all the SCSI bus/ID/termination
> issues OK.  
> But that's kind of what I thought in my situation too.
> 
> 
> Tim