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#HARD DRIVE HELP

    14-Aug-94 10:10:26
Sb: #HARD DRIVE HELP
Fm: Steve Canham 74223,2262
To: Anyone
I need help getting a SCSI hard drive to work with my system. Description of my system: Amiga 500, Standard 512K Agnus, A501 chip, additional 2 megs on Supra 500xp 40 meg hard drive, CSA Mega Midget 68030, 68882, MMU, with 512K 32 Bit SRAM. Workbench 2.0. I am trying to daisy chain a Hard drive that came out of a stock MAC IIci. It is a Quantum Pro Drive 80S (80 megs). It is in its own cabinet with power supply and controller. I have a straight through cord with all 25 pins, which is what I was told I needed. When I hook it up my A500 will not boot. The screen stays white and both drive lights on both drives light up. I have tried changing the ID number of the Quantum drive. Even when just the cord is hooked up, nothing happens. I talked to a dealer (at home, he is out of business) and said that I needed to make sure that the termination is off on the Supra and on on the Quantum. I can't find imformation in the Supra manual about termination. He also said that there is not a high degree of success rate in hooking up extra drives. I haven't done anything to my startup sequence, but I figure that is not my problem… maybe I'm wrong. I would appreciate any detailed "step by step" help if available. Thanks. Steve Canham 74223,2262