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Post #15 by Mr. Ksoft
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It was mentioned above the 320 drives are hit or miss.
I'm aware. I figured at $5 it was worth a try since the 2.5" variant seems to work.

Has the motherboard been recapped?
I'm afraid not, because I suck at precision work and it's expensive to ship out. Not that I have noticed any other problems in the 5 years I have had this machine, so if the caps are on the way out, they are just now starting to go.

Some newer drives allow for no jumper on the main drive as the cable will select.
What do you mean by this? No jumpers = SCSI ID 0 as far as I'm aware. Are you saying that some drives instead will set their own in that configuration? Either way not sure it matters since other IDs don't seem to work either.

Well first you have to setup your partitions right…
Obviously can't do that unless the computer detects the drive and lets me partition it at all.

also i would set your ID jumper to 2 or 3
Tried. Nothing.

you don't need a terminator with the PM 6100, at-least i don't need one.
Well, I've continued to try with and without my passthru terminator... nothing.

Not 100% sure about the TPR jumper try it with or with out.
No difference either way.

Well, unless there is some crazy revelation, I think I give up. I don't even know why I'm messing with it on here anyway, since it's meant for the Quadra 650 I'm putting together. It should come in in the next few days, so I'll start working with that whenever it shows up. Not that I expect to be anything but disappointed on there either, it's likely to be the same old. Maybe I can get my hands on one of your drives, uniserver, in the future-- for now my budget on this project has dried up.

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