From: Larrie Easterly (larrie_at_larrie.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 16:43:51 PDT
Scotty,
I have the same machine. Although there are two SCSI channels my system will
not let me have the same ID numbers on each channel. Try changing one of
them to ID 2 and it should work.
Larrie Easterly
>
> hi gang
>
> i am fooling around with my [still for sale ;)] powermac 8600. it has the
> stock 2g [fireball i think] drive on SCSI channel 0 with ID 0. fine. now i
> am trying to plug in another 2g [seagate] drive. it also has ID 0, so i
> tried in on SCSI channel 1 to avoid a conflict. The mac will boot but will
> not mount the disk. it shows in System Profile and also in Drive Setup. but
> i can't mount it or initialize it [Drive setup says something about
> unsupported volume or something, the same as it says about the Zip drive].
> is there a way [aand benefit] to changing the SCSI Id of my secondary disk?
> how can i get this to work??
>
> thanks for the read,
>
> scotty t
>
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