A Filthy useless SCSI Enclosure covered in tar

[Richard]

I just spent 5 minutes washing tar off my hands. Today I received a MacDirect SCSI enclosure with some Conner hard drive in it from eBay. It was described as working. I added it to my SCSI chain on my SE, made sure all the IDs/termination were right and whatnot, and Hard Disk Toolkit could not see it. I tried connecting it to the SE with no other external SCSI devices. Sad Mac with 0000000F 00000002. I tried every single ID with and without terminator all with the same result. I then opened the enclosure and was greeted by a bunch of tar surrounding each screw hole under the outer case. Before I knew it, my hands, my SyQuest, my CD-ROM drive, my pristine Extended II keyboard, the SE itself, and the ADB mouse II all had the tar on them. I took out the HD and foolishly forgot to take note of where the SCSI ID jumper cable things (from the ID selector on the outer case to some now unknown jumper on the HD). Since there is no documentation for these ancient hard drives, it seems that I dug myself into a hole. A hole filled with tar. ;D

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

YUCK!

Got feathers? :?:

jt

 

[Temetka]

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

[Richard]

As fake as this sounds, I already cleaned it off with Goo Gone.

Still though, the real problem remains, how will I ever know what pins to attach the SCSI ID jumper cables to?

 

[LCGuy]

I never use them - I just use jumpers to set the SCSI ID.

 

[vassilizaitsev]

It all sounds bad, so bad...

I messed with those other jumper things... to my misfortune! I would let go & write it off as a bad experience.

 

[Richard]

Are you saying that it could be risky to put jumpers on random pins hoping it will change the SCSI ID to what you want?

 

[Richard]

The SCSI ID Jumper settings were actually on a sticker on the drive… [] ]'>

 

[porter]

Before I knew it, my hands, my SyQuest, my CD-ROM drive, my pristine Extended II keyboard, the SE itself, and the ADB mouse II all had the tar on them.

tar -xf -

should happily untar them.

 

[macgeek417]

:lol:

 

[Charlieman]

The tar-like substance would have been some natural rubber isolating washers. The goo that you've discovered is the same stuff that is created inside printers, tape drives etc when the rollers disintegrate. You can clean up sometimes by sprinkling the goo with a fine powder (talcum powder, flour, custard powder etc) which will make the goo set sufficiently that it can be peeled off with a sharp knife.

 

[MrMacPlus]

I had that "tar" in the bottom of my SystemSaver GS. Had to clean it all out, disgusting. xx(