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SE/30 bad SCSI bus?

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Chuckdubuque

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Was playing with my SE/30 when I started to get a Sad Mac 0000000F 0000000A. Narrowed it down to my BlueSCSI. If it had a SD card it would go sad Mac. If not I would get the blinking floppy. Tried internal and external BlueSCSI same result.

So it sounds like I have a broken trace or something bad with the SCSI chip? Anything else I should check before tracing it out?
 
Chuckdubuque said:
Was playing with my SE/30 when I started to get a Sad Mac 0000000F 0000000A. Narrowed it down to my BlueSCSI. If it had a SD card it would go sad Mac. If not I would get the blinking floppy. Tried internal and external BlueSCSI same result.

So it sounds like I have a broken trace or something bad with the SCSI chip? Anything else I should check before tracing it out?
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Just a quick note, I did recap the board and cleaned cap goo. Did not note any corrosion, but we all know that’s possible.
 
Does the SE/30 operate normally without the BlueSCSI connected?

The BlueSCSI is unfortunately quite incompatible with the SE/30 in my experience. I couldn't get mine to work for love nor money and ended up using a ZuluSCSI instead. The BlueSCSI has certain limiting factors that make it quite unpredictable in some machines.
 
It was working with BlueSCSI until it started giving a Sad Mac. If I remove the card from BlueSCSI or remove the BlueSCSI altogether it does boot from ROM Drive, and from Floppy. I will dig up a real-HD sometime tonight, but something bad on the SCSI bus sounds like the culplrit.
 
Ok. So, it worked with the original HD (which I managed to find). So I got to thinking that I have not recapped the PS or the analog board yet, and I have some other goodies (Zigzagjoe's 30 Video GS card and PDS 030 Accelerator card) installed. So I grabbed my molex to floppy power cable and plugged in the BlueSCSI and viola. It seems the BlueSCSI is not quite getting enough power without the extra juice and is messing up the SCSI. Snooper reports normal. Problem solved.

Now I have to add power supply and analog board to my priority list.
 
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