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- From: shieh@austin.ibm.com
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: What has IBM done to the internal SCSI-connector ?
- Keywords: SCSI RS/6000 connector
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.160435.13470@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 16:04:35 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.113718.29814@atomica.fi> <1992Oct30.150114.20155@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Nov09.155848.3523@atomica.fi>
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- Organization: IBM, Austin
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- Originator: shieh@racerx.austin.ibm.com
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- In article <1992Nov09.155848.3523@atomica.fi>, dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren) writes:
- > shieh@austin.ibm.com writes:
- >
- >
- > >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
-
- Dag,
- I'm glad it worked out for you. As for doing it
- on purpose, no, IBM didn't do it on purpose. If you notice,
- the "key" has been cut out so as to slip in from either direction.
- So once you pulled up the ribbon (to take out the original
- disk) you probably lost track of which direction the red
- stripe was facing.
-
- --
- The views expressed are my own. They do not represent IBM.
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