hardware fault on SGI Indigo?

[Doc Shipley]

Fabian Hänsel wrote:
> Fabian Hänsel wrote:
> 
>> My drive has a 50 pin scsi, a 4 pin power supply and a 10 pin cable (I 
>> did not know what it is used to) - that connects to those ID pins, 
>> doesn't it? A new drive does not have to have such ID pins, as long as 
>> I can set the scsi id with jumpers, is that right?
> 
> 
> Ops, it's not a 10 pin, but a 6 pin connector with actually 4 cables 
> attached.

   That's the usual ID 1-2-4 jumpers, then.  On most narrow drives the 
jumper pairs share ground, hence the single ground wire on your ID cable.

   *Usually*, if the drive has ID jumpers at the "back" alongside the 
50-pin connector and power connector, the bottom row are the ground 
pins.  Shouldn't hurt anything if you get it upside down, except it will 
only work on ID 2 (ID 0 won't because it's the controller on an Indigo, 
IIRC).


	Doc