Hi. Thanks in advance for your help.
I recently upgraded my trusty old PCI-bus ("Yikes") G4 to Tiger. The old girl just keeps on going! So far everything is great except I can't get my PlexWriter 12/4/32 external CD burner to work. I don't want to junk it b/c it is really a super reliable burner.
Now the Plextor drives come with auto termination and that had been working fine up thru 10.2.8. But I read somewhere that Tiger is finicky about SCSI bus termination so I wasn't surprised when the machine wouldn't fully boot when the burner was on (or under some circumstances it would boot and then require a restart after a minute or so).
So today I picked up a passive terminator and tried that. It's worse, an earlier hang than I've yet seen. Ay caramba! So, the first question: do I need an active terminator?
Some particulars: I do have the most recent firmware for the burner. It runs on an Adaptec 2906 SCSI bus controller in a PCI slot, and the Adaptec site says its most recent driver is installed in Tiger.
The obvious questions I come to are: active terminator as opposed to passive? Or is the problem with the SCSI card?
Any thoughts are most welcome. I will gladly provide any relevant details. Thanks again.
I recently upgraded my trusty old PCI-bus ("Yikes") G4 to Tiger. The old girl just keeps on going! So far everything is great except I can't get my PlexWriter 12/4/32 external CD burner to work. I don't want to junk it b/c it is really a super reliable burner.
Now the Plextor drives come with auto termination and that had been working fine up thru 10.2.8. But I read somewhere that Tiger is finicky about SCSI bus termination so I wasn't surprised when the machine wouldn't fully boot when the burner was on (or under some circumstances it would boot and then require a restart after a minute or so).
So today I picked up a passive terminator and tried that. It's worse, an earlier hang than I've yet seen. Ay caramba! So, the first question: do I need an active terminator?
Some particulars: I do have the most recent firmware for the burner. It runs on an Adaptec 2906 SCSI bus controller in a PCI slot, and the Adaptec site says its most recent driver is installed in Tiger.
The obvious questions I come to are: active terminator as opposed to passive? Or is the problem with the SCSI card?
Any thoughts are most welcome. I will gladly provide any relevant details. Thanks again.
out trying to get a LaCIE SCSI CD burner to work. The computer recognizes the drive in System Profiler, but won't let me write to blank CD's in it. 