Solvalou
Well-known member
So I've been working on my PowerBook 500's and my 180c, managed to get them in a nice running condition.
Data transfering on these machines is nothing short of a bit of a pain but I should have the tools to do it.nor so I thought.
I have one of these "Media Vision" HDI to 25-pin SCSI adapters and I'm trying to run a SCSI CD-ROM drive from it, and all the laptops I try are all doing the same thing.
The two drives I have are an old Lacie one (blue case with a green light on the top) and an original Apple 300e. I know for a fact both work on my desktop computers but the 300e causes the PowerBook's to just boot to the disk question mark screen and the Lacie doesn't do or affect anything.
Changing the ID's does nothing so.om staring to wonder if the Media Vision adapter could be at fault. But if the 300e is anything to go by, it does seem that it is atleast communicating in some way to the SCSI bus.
I'm sure I know the ports are fine as I'm certain I remember using an external HD without issue (though I can't find it right now).
Is this a common issue? Probably missing something really obvious and stupid.
Oh and both have the second (unused) SCSI port terminated.
Any help and guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Data transfering on these machines is nothing short of a bit of a pain but I should have the tools to do it.nor so I thought.
I have one of these "Media Vision" HDI to 25-pin SCSI adapters and I'm trying to run a SCSI CD-ROM drive from it, and all the laptops I try are all doing the same thing.
The two drives I have are an old Lacie one (blue case with a green light on the top) and an original Apple 300e. I know for a fact both work on my desktop computers but the 300e causes the PowerBook's to just boot to the disk question mark screen and the Lacie doesn't do or affect anything.
Changing the ID's does nothing so.om staring to wonder if the Media Vision adapter could be at fault. But if the 300e is anything to go by, it does seem that it is atleast communicating in some way to the SCSI bus.
I'm sure I know the ports are fine as I'm certain I remember using an external HD without issue (though I can't find it right now).
Is this a common issue? Probably missing something really obvious and stupid.
Oh and both have the second (unused) SCSI port terminated.
Any help and guidance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.