NeXT Color Printer vs. filesystem

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2 total messages Started by Carl Lowenstein Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:09

#819

Author: Carl Lowenstein
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:09

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I just stood by and watched as a brand new NeXT Color Workstation
was connected to a brand new NeXT Color Printer, and the printer
trashed the file system.

Apparently the printer comes out of the box set to SCSI target
address 1.  Of course, the system disk in the CPU box is also target 1.

The printer also comes without any trace of an instruction manual,
and also no clues as to how to set its SCSI address.

a) Isn't this pretty silly?  To mis-quote S.Jobs, it just don't work.

b) How do I change the printer's address?

        carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
        {decvax|ucbvax} !ucsd!mpl!cdl                 cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu
                                                  clowenstein@ucsd.edu
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Re: NeXT Color Printer vs. filesystem

#828

Author: John Bartley
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 19:12

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In article <1992Oct10.010933.286@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu  
(Carl Lowenstein) writes:
> I just stood by and watched as a brand new NeXT Color Workstation
> was connected to a brand new NeXT Color Printer, and the printer
> trashed the file system.
> 
> Apparently the printer comes out of the box set to SCSI target
> address 1.  Of course, the system disk in the CPU box is also target  
1.
> 
> The printer also comes without any trace of an instruction manual,
> and also no clues as to how to set its SCSI address.
> 
> a) Isn't this pretty silly?  To mis-quote S.Jobs, it just don't work.
> 
> b) How do I change the printer's address?

Well, mine came with a pretty informative instruction manual (English  
and Japanese) and did NOT come set to address 1.

From page 10 of the manual...

	" The computer has a SCSI ID of 7, the computer's internal hard  
disk has a SCSI ID of 1, and the printer has a SCSI ID of 3."

From page 20....

Changing the SCSI ID

1) Switch the printer off line
2) Enter menu mode
3) Press the arrow keys to go to the INTERFACE SELECT menu
4) go to the SCSI menu (press enter)
5) press the arrow keys to choose the SCSI ID you want to use
   (press enter)
6) switch the printer on line
7) to update the change in NVRAM, press enter

>>>> Remember to set the printer's SCSI ID to the same value in the  
PrintManager application. <<<<<<

Don't forget the SCSI terminator if the printer is the last SCSI device  
in the chain.

John Bartley
Workgroup Productivity Associates
john@wpa.com

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