CompuServe Messages

Steven; I just though of something else. The system should not be bothered by the drive being off. The fact that the drive being off affects the Ami indicates that the terminators are on that drive and powered from the drive. If that is the situation then having the drive off would likely cause a boot failure. If the drive is not the last drive in the chain (terminators not installed) or terminator power is being supplied by the Ami then if having the drive off stops the boot up then the drive is probably bad (interface chips). One other possiblilty is that the Konica drive uses a subset of the scsi spec that was allowed for connecting only a single drive to a controller. Drives designed to this spec cannot be connected to multiple drive buses. -bill