Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Both hard drives on to boot Mac Plus? Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 16:59:57 GMT Article-I.D.: kickapoo.hamilton.670093197 References: <1991Mar27.050325.3851@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 23 lindhurs@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Scott Lindhurst) writes: >I just connected two hard drives to my Mac Plus, and now I can't >boot from one until they are both turned on. Then the one with >the higher SCSI id boots. Either one connected individually >will boot, it's just that when both are connected, they both >have to be turned on get the Mac even to recognize their >existences. Some drives don't provide terminator power when they're switched off (they're supposed to, but...), and this has the effect of making you switch the drive on to make any drive work. I find it annoying myself, but it's one of those things you kinda have to deal with. [...] >Thanks for any help you can give me! >Scott Lindhurst >lindhurs@math.wisc.edu -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who