PowerComputing Clone with CD-ROM issues on YDL Install

[Seth Dimbert]

OK, I've got the termination set up fine.

But the Installer still can't see the CD. Grrrrrrr.

The MacOS sees all three HDD's and the CDROM. But the Linux Installer
doesn't see it!

Help! If termination is not the problem, what is?

-SD



On 6/18/03 5:27 PM, "Tim Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:27  AM, Seth Dimbert wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> That would be improper termination all right.  Properly terminated SCSI
> chains have one terminator (or terminated device) at each end of the
> cable, and nowhere else.  Under most circumstances, Macintosh internal
> SCSI busses have termination on the motherboard, so you only need to
> worry about terminating the other end of the cable.
> 
> Proper termination gets more critical the greater the number of devices
> you try to use.  At four devices I wouldn't be surprised if you begin
> to have problems.
> 
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