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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!atomica!dag
- From: dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren)
- Subject: Re: What has IBM done to the internal SCSI-connector ?
- Organization: Oy Atomica Ab, ESBO, FINLAND
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 15:58:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov09.155848.3523@atomica.fi>
- References: <1992Oct28.113718.29814@atomica.fi> <1992Oct30.150114.20155@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Keywords: SCSI RS/6000 connector
- Lines: 49
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- shieh@austin.ibm.com writes:
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- >In article <1992Oct28.113718.29814@atomica.fi>, dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren) writes:
- >> Hi there,
- >>
- >> Q1.
- >>
- >> I am trying to connect a 3.5" 3-party disk to the internal
- >> SCSI-connector of an RS6000/220 and can't even get the disk to spin up.
- >> (No, it is NOT the 'spin up' jumper).
- >>
- >> The same disk connected to the external connector works just fine.
- >>
- >> Q2.
- >>
- >> Connecting a WangDAT drive to another machine (RS6000/330) I can't even
- >> get the machine to spin up it's internal disks. I have checked SCSI-ID:s,
- >> terminators and cables.
- >>
- >>
- >> Any clues.
- >> --
- >> Dag Nygren email: dag@atomica.fi
- >> Oy Atomica Ab or santra!atomica!dag
- >> Box 22 (Ahventie 4A)
- >> 02170 Esbo
-
- >Dan,
- > You don't happen to have the scsi ribbon inverted do
- >you? The ribbon "key" is not on there, so you may have inverted the
- >ribbon without realizing it.
-
- Actually the key is there but on the wrong side !
-
- Yes, we already solved the problem, thankyou. It seems like IBM put the
- RS6000/220 internal connector the wrong way round.(by purpose ?)
- It was quite easy to see this after we got the pinout of the connector
- from IBM; Getting it was quite hard though :-( .
-
- Thankyou to you all that responded anyway.
-
-
-
- --
- Dag Nygren email: dag@atomica.fi
- Oy Atomica Ab or santra!atomica!dag
- Box 22 (Ahventie 4A)
- 02170 Esbo
-