LCGuy
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
So as those who read in Conquests will know, yesterday I picked up a free Performa 5260. Anyway, it seems that the SCSI bus on its logic board is blown. Everything else, however, seems to work.
Meanwhile, back at home, I also have another Performa 5260 board that I was running in my LC630 shell for about 4 years, till its internal SCSI blew out (while i was testing an external SCSI HDD, and blamed the HDD for that). Same story...IDE works, as does every other part of the machine, apart from the SCSI bus. Neither internal nor external SCSI works.
I know that the Performa 5260 logic board uses a revised design, which has an onboard ROM (rather than the combination ROM/L2 Cache SIMM the other Performas used)...it just makes me wonder...is there a common issue with these boards that is causing them to lose their SCSI buses? I just think its strange that I have two boards of the same model that have the exact same problem...it'll be interesting to see if anyone else here has encountered this.
Meanwhile, back at home, I also have another Performa 5260 board that I was running in my LC630 shell for about 4 years, till its internal SCSI blew out (while i was testing an external SCSI HDD, and blamed the HDD for that). Same story...IDE works, as does every other part of the machine, apart from the SCSI bus. Neither internal nor external SCSI works.
I know that the Performa 5260 logic board uses a revised design, which has an onboard ROM (rather than the combination ROM/L2 Cache SIMM the other Performas used)...it just makes me wonder...is there a common issue with these boards that is causing them to lose their SCSI buses? I just think its strange that I have two boards of the same model that have the exact same problem...it'll be interesting to see if anyone else here has encountered this.