Model 340 and Plextor 63CS CD Drive

[Peter]

I know there has been many threads over the subject of CD drives on
older machines. But I have not been able to find anything specific to
this problem.

It is a Model 340, has a Plaxtor 63CS CD drive. However it hangs at
868 (initializing SCSI adapter). I've tried the CD:

Terminated and unterminated, internally and externally at varous SCSI
ID's, with parity and wihtout parity, all combinations I can think of.
Another SCSI CD drive was recoginised immediatly (however that one had
the 512 byte issue and could therefore not be used as a boot device).

Does anyone have a solution to it, short of using 'true blue'. Which
any other time I would use a 7210 (but don't have one).


Thanks

PD

[Kent Squires]

could you have a SCSI ID conflict?

On 11 Sep 2003 11:22:06 -0700, [email]dominey1@airmail.net[/email] (Peter) wrote:

>I know there has been many threads over the subject of CD drives on
>older machines. But I have not been able to find anything specific to
>this problem.
>
>It is a Model 340, has a Plaxtor 63CS CD drive. However it hangs at
>868 (initializing SCSI adapter). I've tried the CD:
>
>Terminated and unterminated, internally and externally at varous SCSI
>ID's, with parity and wihtout parity, all combinations I can think of.
>Another SCSI CD drive was recoginised immediatly (however that one had
>the 512 byte issue and could therefore not be used as a boot device).
>
>Does anyone have a solution to it, short of using 'true blue'. Which
>any other time I would use a 7210 (but don't have one).
>
>
>Thanks
>
>PD

[Peter]

Kent,

Well, I don't think so, hdisk0 is at 6 and hdisk1 at 0 the CD I'm
pretty sure I have at 5. But I think I might try other ones, had
issues before about devices only work on spcific ID's

Thanks

Kent Squires <ksquires@geeks.org> wrote in message news:<gpg1mv8h8n9qk8rpqsvvdh70apjk024t88@4ax.com>. ..

> could you have a SCSI ID conflict?
>
> On 11 Sep 2003 11:22:06 -0700, [email]dominey1@airmail.net[/email] (Peter) wrote:
>

> >I know there has been many threads over the subject of CD drives on
> >older machines. But I have not been able to find anything specific to
> >this problem.
> >
> >It is a Model 340, has a Plaxtor 63CS CD drive. However it hangs at
> >868 (initializing SCSI adapter). I've tried the CD:
> >
> >Terminated and unterminated, internally and externally at varous SCSI
> >ID's, with parity and wihtout parity, all combinations I can think of.
> >Another SCSI CD drive was recoginised immediatly (however that one had
> >the 512 byte issue and could therefore not be used as a boot device).
> >
> >Does anyone have a solution to it, short of using 'true blue'. Which
> >any other time I would use a 7210 (but don't have one).
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >PD

[Ulrich.Teichert@gmx.de]

In <c8040da6.0309111022.1105aea4@posting.google.com > [email]dominey1@airmail.net[/email] (Peter) writes:

>I know there has been many threads over the subject of CD drives on
>older machines. But I have not been able to find anything specific to
>this problem.

>It is a Model 340, has a Plaxtor 63CS CD drive. However it hangs at
>868 (initializing SCSI adapter). I've tried the CD:

Is it labed 6Plex at the front and identifies like:

Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-6XCS Rev: 1.00
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

this on the SCSI bus? If yes, I had no luck at all with this drive
on my 320h. I suspect because it can only do 5.00MHz synchronous SCSI.
I had luck with any other Plextor I tried (Plex 12/20, UltraPlex, 12Plex),
but not with the 6Plex.

HTH,
Uli
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[Peter]

Uli

I'll have to check but I think it may well be the model, you refenced
as not working. That sounds a very possible explination, the syptoms
are very much like a mismatch of that type.

Thanks


[email]Ulrich.Teichert@gmx.de[/email] wrote in message news:<HL2Jus.6tw@fake.nms.ulrich-teichert.org>...

> In <c8040da6.0309111022.1105aea4@posting.google.com > [email]dominey1@airmail.net[/email] (Peter) writes:
>

> >I know there has been many threads over the subject of CD drives on
> >older machines. But I have not been able to find anything specific to
> >this problem.

>

> >It is a Model 340, has a Plaxtor 63CS CD drive. However it hangs at
> >868 (initializing SCSI adapter). I've tried the CD:

>
> Is it labed 6Plex at the front and identifies like:
>
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-6XCS Rev: 1.00
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> this on the SCSI bus? If yes, I had no luck at all with this drive
> on my 320h. I suspect because it can only do 5.00MHz synchronous SCSI.
> I had luck with any other Plextor I tried (Plex 12/20, UltraPlex, 12Plex),
> but not with the 6Plex.
>
> HTH,
> Uli