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Title: Dumb questions about replacing internal HD Post by: viszla-ator on April 01, 2009, 03:13:58 PM Hi everybody, I am brand new here and so excited about finding this forum. You seem like a great crowd. Of course that makes sense because you are E-mu users.
Short version -- does the internal drive need termination? does it matter what SCSI ID it is set to as long as it does not conflict with another device? Long version: I've been trying to get my EIII back in working order. It seems to only have one problem -- it cannot boot from the internal drive, and when I boot from a floppy and try to load banks, it gives me either "SCSI Media Error" or "SCSI Hardware Error" My external CD and HardDrive are all recognized and I can boot from the external no problem. So I am thinking it is time to replace to the internal drive. I have a couple that will work. (Holding off on that wonderful CF solution I read about) Do I need to terminate the drive? Does it matter what SCSI ID I give it? I have looked around on the net and through the posts and have not come across that info. THANKS! Title: Re: Dumb questions about replacing internal HD Post by: viszla-ator on April 03, 2009, 05:33:58 AM Well from what I can find, the internal drive does need to be terminated. As to scsi ID, I just set the ID of the new drive to the same as the old original drive.
However I've screwed up somewhere -- it seems like the floppy is not getting power now, or something. I was doing all this later in the evening last night, so I gave up about 10pm. Going to see if I can figure out what is what going on later today. Title: Re: Dumb questions about replacing internal HD Post by: viszla-ator on April 03, 2009, 09:58:10 AM Floppy issue - cable running to card in cage needed to be re-seated.
The internal HD has to be terminated, or the EIII won't start up (at least mine won't). EIII would not see a Quantum 1GB fireball. I put in a Quantum 700MB Trailblazer - Apple branded, model TR70S026 Rev 01 - A S043C. I set it to ID2, which was how the original 40mb internal was set up. The EIII saw it and formatted. It took about 2 hours to format and verify. The EIII boots from it, writes banks to it, loads banks from it - everything it outta do. Now I just got to get it all put back together and start playing. |