Mounting APS 128 Magneto-Optical Drive on G3 Lombard

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Mounting APS 128 Magneto-Optical Drive on G3 Lombard

I have a *G3 Lombard* with a SCSI port. When I bought it, it came with OS 8.6 which supported SCSI. I had an older *APS 128 Mag-Optical device* connected via SCSI and it worked great. Since that time, we've all moved on to USB and Firewire, etc.

My problem: I'm now running OSX 10.3.9 on this Lombard (which still runs really well). I need to access data from two Mag-Optical disks. I've tried booting up in Classic (9.2.2) but no matter what I do, the Lombard cannot see the APS MO drive which has a SCSI ID# of 4. I've got the cable hooked up. I've got a terminator on the the APS MO drive. When I open a utility like Alliance Power Tools, to mount the drive after start-up... there's nothing there. The Lombard sees nothing. It can't mount what it can't see.

I've since moved on to a Mac Pro and I hardly use this Lombard. Would I be better off loading the original OS 8.6 operating system back onto this machine? Does the 9.2.2 Classic that came with Panther, not support SCSI?

Suggestions?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 3.0 Dual Core/8 Gigs RAM (4 x 2)/500 GigHD/X1900/23" Cinema+Dell 1707FP Displays

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 12:38 AM

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Answer 1

jpl

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Feb 19, 2008 8:55 AM in response to KiteSurfer

KiteSurfer,

If you are booting to 9.2.2 (not running Classic while booted to 10.x), the drives should still work. A few suggestions:

1. Make sure you have set the SCSI Setup control panel to something other than #0 or #6.

2. OS 9.2.x has an issue with the SCSI Setup control panel regarding SCSI Disk Mode. This should not affect your SCSI bus for connecting external devices, but if all else fails, you may want to test other SCSI numbers in the SCSI Setup control panel.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25425

3. Make sure you are using a 29-pin SCSI connector and not the 30-pin SCSI connector for SCSI Disk Mode.

4. These two items can affect SCSI devices: Corrupted PRAM and MacOS 9 HD driver. Reset the PRAM; regarding the latter...when booted to 9.x, open Drive Setup > select Update Driver > restart to make active.

5. Is it possible the drives used special drivers and they are not installed?

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KiteSurfer Author

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Feb 19, 2008 1:01 PM in response to jpl

OK... so I'm not trying to use the Lombard in SCSI Disk Mode... as a SCSI device accessible from another computer. I'm solely attempting to get the APS 128 MO to appear on my Lombard's desktop like it use to way back when I was running OS 8.6.

I honestly don't remember loading a driver for this device but it was years ago.

That said, the Lombard ID on the SCSI set-up control is #2. The APS 128 MO SCSI ID is #4.

I'm using the same cable I used to use.

I've reset the PRAM and tried to select +Update Driver+ but it appears in grey type, therefore inaccessible... not an option. I re-scan for exterior SCSI devices and the Lombard still doesn't see the APS 128 MO.

The only other possibility appears to be the absence of an appropriate driver.

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jpl

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Feb 19, 2008 1:38 PM in response to KiteSurfer

KiteSurfer,

I knew you were not trying to use SCSI Disk Mode...I just wanted to make sure you had the correct cable and understand the issue of 9.x + SCSI on the Lombard.

I would head over to the MacOS 9 Discussions and post. There are many excellent contributors there with a wealth of knowledge.

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=669

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KiteSurfer Author

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Feb 19, 2008 4:06 PM in response to jpl

OK jpl...

Thanks for your valuable input. I'm gonna try to ascertain if there is a missing driver before taking the next step. Thanks again for your insight.

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