'Blown' was too strong a word. 'Flaky' is I think the better term to use.
The trouble first appeared a year or so ago when I first got the machine and tried to connect a PowerBook via scsi — and failed to get the scsi icon dancing around the screen as expected. I tried and retried, used all the cables locally available to beachycovekind, then finally muttered something dark and moved on.
This weekend, however, I found myself wanting to connect the ColorOne scanner to the thing,my Quadra 650 scanning station having ceased to function (caps, probably), whereupon I failed once more. The odd thing is that the G3AIO will recognize an ordinary external hard drive on its scsi bus, and that external drive will pass the usual HD diagnostic tests, but for some reason, the external scsi port will not work with a powerbook, or a scanner.
It could, I suppose, be that it needs a more emphatic scsi termination than either the powerbook (a Wallstreet) or the scanner can provide. I lack the necessary cable to connect first the scanner and then the terminated drive in series, but I suppose that would be the next step.
The trouble first appeared a year or so ago when I first got the machine and tried to connect a PowerBook via scsi — and failed to get the scsi icon dancing around the screen as expected. I tried and retried, used all the cables locally available to beachycovekind, then finally muttered something dark and moved on.
This weekend, however, I found myself wanting to connect the ColorOne scanner to the thing,my Quadra 650 scanning station having ceased to function (caps, probably), whereupon I failed once more. The odd thing is that the G3AIO will recognize an ordinary external hard drive on its scsi bus, and that external drive will pass the usual HD diagnostic tests, but for some reason, the external scsi port will not work with a powerbook, or a scanner.
It could, I suppose, be that it needs a more emphatic scsi termination than either the powerbook (a Wallstreet) or the scanner can provide. I lack the necessary cable to connect first the scanner and then the terminated drive in series, but I suppose that would be the next step.