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- From: Rick Boebel <boebel@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu>
- Subject: PB 160 & NEC CDR-77
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- I recently purchased a PB 160 40/4 (delivered in 2 weeks BTW)
- and last night tried to use it with a NEC CDR-77, an older
- model CD-ROM. The PB would not boot with the NEC attached, it
- seemed like some sort of SCSI problem so I tried changing the
- address of the NEC from 1 to 4 to 6 and this didn`t work. I
- tried putting a terminator on the NEC and the machine started
- to boot giving me a error message saying obus errorn and
- oreboot holding down the space bar to eliminate extensionsn
- when I did this the same error message came up! This has me
- puzzled because the NEC works fine without a terminator on a
- plain old MAC IIcx and the SCSI cable I`m using on the PB works
- fine on a friend's external hard drive.
- Someone said this could be a SCSI-2 problem because NEC's are
- incompatable with SCSI-2. Is this my problem? Does the
- powerbook use SCSI-2?
-