Yeah you probably need a terminator for one of the connectors on the cd drive. They are wired in parallel but it needs a terminator on the end of the chain, in your case the CD drive.

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so funny.. if you knew what i've had to go through to get this far.... lol..

First I bought the mac, minus screen

then got a adapter to vga (Didn't work)

then got another adapter with dip switches.. spent a few hours going through heaps of combinations of settings to find the right one..

then found out the floppy drive did not work (So I could not load the software that I got the old mac for)

Opened up the drive, and found a catch had broken on the drive, stopping the drive head from resting on the disk.. I eventually gently held the drive head down on the disk with a pencil, and got it to save to the hard drive

Then I found a SCSI CD drive in my garage (I need to retrieve some data from a CD for the software)

Found an appropriate SCSI cable..

I don't have a SCSI terminator yet.. without this, the computer won't see the drive at all?

Thanks for all your swift replies.

Regards

Mike