darryl@ism780c.isc.com (Darryl Richman) (09/02/88)
I recently bought a Mac II, 1Mb, 4 bit mono apple monitor, extended keyboard. I sold my Mac+, but kept my almost 2 year old Jasmine direct drive 20. I just connected it up and away I went. However. I bought a DPI 44R, their implementation of the Syquest 44Mb removable cartridge drive. They shipped promptly and the unit is very quiet and compact. My problem is that the Mac II refuses to recognize the drive (with a cartridge installed). The cartridges are supposed to come preformatted and installed. When I power up the drive, install a cartridge and wait for the drive to come online, and then power up the Mac, I can see the access light blink about once a second. I presume that this is the Mac polling the SCSI port. (Oh yeah, the SCSI device number is set to 4.) If I then load the floppy they supplied with the unit and run the formatter, it recognizes that the unit is there at SCSI 4. However, if I then ask it to format (or install or initialize), the access light immediately comes on and stays on and the Mac locks up. I can configure the Jasmine into the SCSI daisy chain before or after the DPI and, so long as it is turned on, the system continues to operate correctly but does not recognize the DPI. I'm running System 6.0 on the Jasmine, but 4.2 is on the formatter floppy. Does anyone out there recognize these symptoms? (BTW, DPI has been very sympathetic; I've used several hours of their 800 phone time and they have already had the unit back and forth once. They were able to make it work correctly with a Plus, SE, and a II. It's driving me and them nuts. But if it doesn't work soon I'm going to have to take them up on their money back guarantee.) --Darryl Richman -- Copyright (c) 1988 Darryl Richman The views expressed are the author's alone darryl@ism780c.isc.com INTERACTIVE Systems Corp.--An Eastman Kodak Company "For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken
joe@trotter.usma.edu (CPT Joe DiGangi) (09/07/88)
We just bought an Infinity Turbo 40 from PLI, and I seem to recall that they were very specific in the way you could boot the system. First, they required that a cartridge be in the drive _before_ power up. After you were powered up, you could "throw" the disk icon in the trash, and then manually eject it from the drive. Secondly, the Turbo 40 is internally terminated, so depending upon the configuration of your system determined where it had to be placed. The Turbo 40 was either the first or last SCSI device in the system, but nothing in between. If you already have an external SCSI device that is terminated (like your Direct Drive), and the Mac II internal drive is terminated, then I'm not sure exactly what will happen. That seems to me to be too many terminators and you may have to end up cutting some resistors. BTW, the cartridge drives are identical (Syquest). Hope that helps. Joe -- CPT Joe DiGangi Department of Mathematics, US Military Academy West Point, N.Y. 10996 UUCP: philabs!trotter!joe Phone #: 914-938-4811
pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Paul G. Nevai) (09/08/88)
What is the current street price of a Syquest cartridge? Is it available from mail order houses. What is the address of Syquest? I am asking about the cartridge itself, not the drive. P.S. I've had two Mass Micro Systems' Data Paks for three months, and apart from a few minor problems they work great, both as a primary hard disk and as a backup device. In addition, the customer support is 1st class too. The termination though is a problem. I removed the internal terminator and substituted with an external one, and it did not work! P.S. #2. Usual disclaimers. Paul Nevai pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu Department of Mathematics TS1171@ohstvma.BITNET The Ohio State University 73057,172.Compu$erve Columbus, OH 43210 1-(614)-292-5310.office U.S.A. 1-(803)-292-4975.secy
harry@janus.UUCP (09/09/88)
In article <875@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>, pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Paul G. Nevai) writes: > > What is the current street price of a Syquest cartridge? I just bought some from Hamilton-Avenet for $100 each (Q1-99) I got them within a week of sending them a check. > Is it available from mail order houses. Hardware House (800-356-2892) has them backordered for $100. (Ordered on 6/26 and still not received.) They are a Mass Micro dealer. > What is the address of Syquest? They are in Cupertino, CA, if memory serves me right. -- Harry Felder ...!{uunet,hacgate}!janus!harry +1 213 302 4360