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- Jeff, Hellige wrote:
- >
- > I have a 2gig HD, an IBM Mod# 0664M1H, which worked perfectly on my A3000
- > under OS 2.1, and still works fine on a PC, but locks the A3000 up hard when
- > I try to scan the SCSI bus to use the drive under OS 3.1. At the time I was
- > running it under OS 2.1, I was also running the Rev.04 WD SCSI chip, though
- > had switched to the newer Rev. 08, but am now back to the Rev. 04 chip. The
- > 2gig refuses to work under OS 3.1 regardless of what is done or what SCSI
- > chip is used. Anyone have any ideas what I need to do to get this drive
- > to work with the A3000 again?
- >
- > BTW, the reason I switched back to the Rev. 04 SCSI chip is because I had
- > another smaller external drive hooked up while using the Rev. 08 chip, and
- > the more I used the smaller drive, the flakier the system acted until it
- > finally invalidated one or both drives.
- >
- > I'm also running an external Sony CD-ROM and an Exabyte 8200 DAT tape
- > drive.
-
- A bad Rev 08 chip? There are so many chips that can cause problems in
- the A3000, it's hard to figure this one out. Did you change any
- SCSIprefs? Bad cable? Incorrect termination?
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