CelGen
Well-known member
I don't have a CLUE what the hell is going on.
So if I have a CD drive on either of the internal buses, they won't work. It doesn't matter if it's the only device attached or if there's other devices like the hard drive and zip drive. The system hates CD drives internally. If you boot with the drive attached you can't mount CD's You'll have to boot with a system CD in the drive and only if you insert halfway through the boot or else you get bus errors. As my original Apple 24x drive is dud I'm using Yamaha's CD-RW drives and I have two 6x and 16x drives. The 16x's will start to boot and then hang. The 6x's will boot a little further and then hang as well. If I try a Toshiba from another system I can CD boot but the instant I move the mouse around, bam, the drive spins down and sounds like its trying to read over and over. The system meanwhile still responds to mouse movement but has otherwise locked solid. Even the power button no longer responds.
Now, if we take ANY of the above drives, put them in an external enclosure and hang that off the external SCSI port.....not a single problem but I'm not going to live with an external CD drive on this machine.
I've tried different power connectors, I've tried different ribbon cables. I've even tried different ID's and levels of termination. I've got one bank of ram filled. This persists.
So if I have a CD drive on either of the internal buses, they won't work. It doesn't matter if it's the only device attached or if there's other devices like the hard drive and zip drive. The system hates CD drives internally. If you boot with the drive attached you can't mount CD's You'll have to boot with a system CD in the drive and only if you insert halfway through the boot or else you get bus errors. As my original Apple 24x drive is dud I'm using Yamaha's CD-RW drives and I have two 6x and 16x drives. The 16x's will start to boot and then hang. The 6x's will boot a little further and then hang as well. If I try a Toshiba from another system I can CD boot but the instant I move the mouse around, bam, the drive spins down and sounds like its trying to read over and over. The system meanwhile still responds to mouse movement but has otherwise locked solid. Even the power button no longer responds.
Now, if we take ANY of the above drives, put them in an external enclosure and hang that off the external SCSI port.....not a single problem but I'm not going to live with an external CD drive on this machine.
I've tried different power connectors, I've tried different ribbon cables. I've even tried different ID's and levels of termination. I've got one bank of ram filled. This persists.