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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Has anyone been able to get a CD
Message-ID: <8347@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 10 Sep 90 05:57:49 GMT
References: <69943.26EB0E48@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <69943.26EB0E48@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> Mark.Bryant@p1.f54.n382.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Bryant) writes:
>
>SS>  Has anyone been able to hook up a CDR-35 (NEC CDROM) to a SCSI 
>SS>  port along with a hard drive?
>
>I've got the NEC unit and two other SCSI disks on the same machine.
>You're right, of course, that the cd-rom has to be the last thing
>on the chain.  Check to make sure that the hard disk(s) you're running
>are not terminated.  


  DON'T DO IT!  I had a NEC CDR-35 CD-ROM drive hooked up after a Seagate
hard drive in my SCSI chain.  THE INTERNAL TERMINATION ON THE CDR-35 CAUSED
THE SEAGATE DRIVE TO EMIT LOUD, METALLIC BANGING NOISES!

  Removing the CDR-35 caused the problem to go away.  I now have a Toshiba
CD-ROM drive in its place and everything is O.K.

  Good thing the MacZone had a 30-day money back guarantee!

-- Mark Wilkins