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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Question: startup beeps diagnostic?
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Date: 29 May 91 05:39:52 GMT
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In article <1991May25.000907.43184@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, jford@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> The question arose, actually, because his brother had tried to hook his hard
> drive up to my friend's new IIfx, and they discovered that this didn't work. 
> for some reason, every time the computer started up, it would check to see what
> was there (as usual), and then the computer would go "de da da da" with a
> rising pitch and stop booting.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what could have caused this?  They spent two hours at it,
> and still have no idea.  As far as they know the drive is internally
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^
> terminated, and they tried resetting it's SCSI id.
  ^^^^^^^^^^

If it's internally terminated, then it won't work with the IIfx.  That is
the reason for the black terminator shipped with the IIfx.  It should be
the ONLY one used to terminate the SCSI bus.

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