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From: joe@trotter.usma.edu (CPT Joe DiGangi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Syquest cartridge disk problem
Summary: Syquest has very specific start-up procedures.
	 These drives are internally terminated.
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Date: 7 Sep 88 11:32:56 GMT
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We just bought an Infinity Turbo 40 from PLI, and I seem to recall that they
were very specific in the way you could boot the system.  First, they required
that a cartridge be in the drive _before_ power up.  After you were powered up,
you could "throw" the disk icon in the trash, and then manually eject it from
the drive.

Secondly, the Turbo 40 is internally terminated, so depending upon the 
configuration of your system determined where it had to be placed.  The Turbo
40 was either the first or last SCSI device in the system, but nothing in 
between.  If you already have an external SCSI device that is terminated
(like your Direct Drive), and the Mac II internal drive is terminated, then I'm
not sure exactly what will happen.  That seems to me to be too many terminators
and you may have to end up cutting some resistors.

BTW, the cartridge drives are identical (Syquest).

Hope that helps.

Joe

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CPT Joe DiGangi
Department of Mathematics, US Military Academy
West Point, N.Y. 10996
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