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From: kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: PLI drive and Cube
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.132842.10133@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 13:28:42 GMT
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Hey folks,

I got my PLI  floppy drive on Friday.  And on Friday night I went nuts and put in
my '040 board and set up my floppy drive.  The new board works great.  It was kind of
fun (and needless to say Nerve Racking) to open up the ol' cube.

Anyway... I'm confused about how to get my cube to recognize that the floppy drive
exists.

I hooked up the drive as SCSI device #4 . 
I powered up the cube and tried to format a disk using the workspace manager menu options


The options were all greyed out indicating those options were not available to me.  Even
the eject option is not availble.  So now I have a disk trapped in my floppy drive.

I went back to the PLI drive instructions to see if I missed anything.  I noticed the instruction
which said to make sure the rear power switch is off when hooking up the device and on before
booting up the machine.  I tried to confirm that the power switch was indeed on, and to my
surprise...

THERE WAS NO POWER SWITCH!!!!!!   Only two SCSI outlets, SCSI device number selector,
and the Termination on/off switch.

I'm really confused!!!!

Any help is greatly appreciated!
-Keith