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From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 5.25" Hard Disk in a IIci?
Keywords: IIci, hard disk
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.163154.10492@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 18 Nov 89 16:31:54 GMT
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In article <1989Nov14.152256.303@agate.berkeley.edu> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes:

>(Strangely, I can get the IIci to work with the internal 5.25"
>drive and Radius card, but only when an external hard disk is
>attached and powered up; without that, I get the sweet arpeggio
>which denotes a hardware fault.  Removing all Nubus cards works
>too, but you can't do too much without a monitor :-(.)
 
Sounds like you don't have terminators for the internal drive.  The external
drive's terminators are enough to let the bus work.
 
Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)