Ecto Aircooler
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Hey all,
I've got a Quadra 950 that I've had for a few years that has recently started to have some issues.
Its got 256MB of RAM, a Radius PrecisionColor 24xk and an FWB SCSI JackHammer in it currently. However, the SCSI JackHammer has suddenly failed, in fact, two of them have failed or are at least seemingly not working properly.
Here's the story, I was getting some "bus error" bomb messages, and at other times the machine would just hard lock. I tried and tried but could never figure out the source of the issue. I ended up moving and forgot about the machines problems until I sat down to hook it all back up. Upon doing so, the bus errors were still there, but the machine was functional. Eventually, the machine refused to boot, and would not detect any SCSI drives on that card. I looked to see if Slot Info would see the card but it did not. I tried everything I could think of to get the machine back to a bootable state, but alas, no dice. I made a post on the Facebook group about this, and someone offered to sell me another card to replace my failed one. I received the card and it worked, until today when I went to boot the machine and the exact same issue has appeared. The card, no matter what I do, fails to be seen by Slot Info when the machine is booted from an 8.1 CD.
Currently, the card resides in the top slot of my 950, and is attached to a single HD. I believe the ID of the drive is set to 1, term power is enabled on the drive, and there is an active terminator on the end of the ribbon cable. In addition, all the resistor packs on the card are there, and there is an active terminator plugged into the external port on the card, which lights green when the machine has power.
I'm completely out of ideas here guys, how do two SCSI cards seemingly die in the same machine back to back?
I've got a Quadra 950 that I've had for a few years that has recently started to have some issues.
Its got 256MB of RAM, a Radius PrecisionColor 24xk and an FWB SCSI JackHammer in it currently. However, the SCSI JackHammer has suddenly failed, in fact, two of them have failed or are at least seemingly not working properly.
Here's the story, I was getting some "bus error" bomb messages, and at other times the machine would just hard lock. I tried and tried but could never figure out the source of the issue. I ended up moving and forgot about the machines problems until I sat down to hook it all back up. Upon doing so, the bus errors were still there, but the machine was functional. Eventually, the machine refused to boot, and would not detect any SCSI drives on that card. I looked to see if Slot Info would see the card but it did not. I tried everything I could think of to get the machine back to a bootable state, but alas, no dice. I made a post on the Facebook group about this, and someone offered to sell me another card to replace my failed one. I received the card and it worked, until today when I went to boot the machine and the exact same issue has appeared. The card, no matter what I do, fails to be seen by Slot Info when the machine is booted from an 8.1 CD.
Currently, the card resides in the top slot of my 950, and is attached to a single HD. I believe the ID of the drive is set to 1, term power is enabled on the drive, and there is an active terminator on the end of the ribbon cable. In addition, all the resistor packs on the card are there, and there is an active terminator plugged into the external port on the card, which lights green when the machine has power.
I'm completely out of ideas here guys, how do two SCSI cards seemingly die in the same machine back to back?