Eek!
You plugged a SCSI device into a machine while it was running?
Here's what I've been told: Don't do that. It's a "Bad Thing" -- the
SCSI cables carry power and it's very possible that you can blast your
scsi card (and even stuff close to the card, like a video card,
motherboard, etc) by plugging a SCSI device into a chain without powering
down first.
We even power down our SCSI-connected Solaris arrays before adding drives.
Supposedly, ADB is beholden to similar restrictions, although the power
that an old Mac keyboard/mouse carries is less than that of a SCSI
connection. Other connections, like fibre channel (or usb/firewire, for
that matter) don't require a power-down.
Sounds like you got away with it. But I wouldn't recommend pulling the Zip
back off while it was running. ;)
~Dustin
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Ed Kummel wrote:
>
> Huh?!?
> I've got four different ZIP drives that plug into 4
> different Windows machines.
> I plugged the SCSI Zip-100 drive directly into the
> SCSI port of my Dell Dimension running Win2k. The
> machine recognized it without having to load any
> drivers and without having to reboot the machine.
> Total installation time, less than 2 seconds (it took
> one second to identify which way the SCSI plug was
> oriented)
> I was also able to plug this ZIp drive in my Win98
> machine with an Adaptec SCSI card. After the drivers
> were loaded for the Zip drive, and the machine was
> rebooted, everything worked (and still works) fine!
> Total installation time, less than 3 minutes.
> I plugged my USB Zip-250 directly into the USB port on
> my Dell Laptop Docking station (the laptop running
> Win2k) and it recognized the Zip drive instantly!
> Total installation time, one second. probably less...
> I connected the parlallel Zip-100 into my wife's Dell
> desktop and after installing the drivers (had to grab
> new drivers from Iomega from their website) and
> rebooted her machine it worked flawlessly! 5 minutes
> to install (2 minutes to download the new software, 3
> minutes to install)
> Lastly, I purchased a used Dell laptop for my mom and
> it came with a Zip drive that popped into one of the
> bays (it works in either the floppy/CD bay or the
> battery bay). I wiped the hard drive and put on
> Win98SE. While the OS was running, I removed the CD
> drive and popped in the ZIP drive. The ZIp drive was
> instantly recognized. Total install time, 2 seconds
> (had to tell the OS that the CD ROM was being removed
> from the hot-swappable bay) In every instance, the
> installation required no more than loading the
> software, accepting the defaults and then rebooting
> the computer...and that was the extreme! Total time
> (not including reboot time) was less than 3 minutes!
> If your installation takes longer, then you need to
> approach the solution not from the OS side, but in how
> you have your particular installation configured (I
> know that some machines come equipped with the USB
> ports disabled in BIOS...but that happens very rarely!
> Oh, I just thought of a fifth machine that required me
> to install a second parallel port on the machine, load
> the drivers for that new port, then load the drivers
> for the Zip drive, then reboot, plug in the drive and
> everything works! total install time 10 minutes (had
> to open the case and put in the new parallel card for
> this one..) I rely heavily on Zip drives (it's my
> preferred method of giving my parents updates to
> applications that they are running...)
> Ed
> web/gadget guru
>
> --- rminton_at_commscope.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >PS If you are absolutely sure you can stand it, ask
> > me about how I
> > >tried to hook up my zip drive to this PC (after
> > hooking it up to the
> > >Mac took around 3 minutes).
> >
> > Oh yes, please Sir, may we have more?
> >
> > Randy
>
> =====
> Just because you're a genius, doesn't make you a smart guy!
> - The Powerpuff Girls -
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail!
> http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
>
>
-- This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Feb 01 2002 - 16:02:18 EST