Idiot tries to install new hard drive

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From: Stephen Jacobs
Date: Sun, 21 May 1989 19:41

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For my birthday I gave myself a ST-296N to replace my ST-238R.  I'm having a
bit of trouble installing it.  

What I did:  removed the ST-238 and the Adaptec 4070 from my setup.  Carefully
checked which pin was 1 on both my BMS-100 host adapter and the drive, and 
obtained the appropriate 50-pin cable.  Connected power to both drive and BMS
100, ACSI to BMS-100, ribbon from BMS-100 to ST-296 and powered up.

What happened: The disk spins up, it sounds like the head loads,
but the light on the front never flashes, 
and when I try to run installation software it doesn't recognize that 
there's a DMA device connected.

So I put things back the way they were, and I'm writing this note.  Tomorrow
I'll hit the official support channels.  I'll be real grateful for any help
from you folks (why do I trust net people more than official customer support
people?
                                     Steve J.

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From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Idiot tries to install new hard drive
Keywords: BMS-100 ST-296N Adaptec_4070
Message-ID: <8505@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 21 May 89 19:41:57 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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