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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 hd desktop mounting
- Message-ID: <49Ig03RKc5aA00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- From: jsp@uts.amdahl.com (James Preston)
- Date: 20 Dec 92 20:53:26 GMT
- Reply-To: jsp@pls.amdahl.com
- References: <1992Dec19.024114.20492@sarah.albany.edu> <1992Dec19.024430.20593@sarah.albany.edu>
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- pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White) writes:
-
- }What is needed to mount a pb100's hard drive on a desktop mac. I called
- }macconnection and they told me I would need a cable, adaptor, and a terminator
- }which would run about $100. I thought all that was needed was a hdi-30
- }25 pin SCSI cable? What's the deal?
-
- First, there are *two* types of the hdi-30 cable. One type functions as
- a normal SCSI cable and is used to connect external disc drives to any
- PowerBook (I think this type is called a "system" cable). The other type
- is what you need, and it can *only* be used to connect a PB100 to another
- Mac in "SCSI-disc mode" (I think it's called a "disc" cable). You will
- also need a normal in-line SCSI terminator connected to the other end
- of the hdi-30 cable (see the PB100 manual). The Apple list price for
- either of these cables is indeed about $100, so the person on the phone
- got that right, although I don't know what he could have meant by
- "adaptor", unless he was thinking of the normal SCSI cable that you
- need to conect the other end of the hdi-30 to your Mac.
-
- Anyway, to do this you shutdown the PB100 and the other Mac, plug in the
- hdi-30 cable to both, and then press a key on the PB100. If you have the
- correct cable, the PB100 will come up in SCSI disc mode, and you will see
- a large SCSI icon marching across the screen. If the PB100 comes up
- normally, it means that you have the wrong hdi-30 cable. DO NOT start the
- other Mac!! It's possible that you will scramble one or both of the discs!!
- Shutdown the PB100, disconnect the cables and go get the right hdi-30.
- If you *do* see the marching SCSI icon, just start the other Mac and
- the PB100's disc will show up just like any other external disc.
-
- --James Preston
-