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In article <1dabqv4.tilbqx6ujmyxN@p35.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:



Thanks for your help.


>If it's got an internal terminator, there will be a small switch
>probably on the back to turn it on or off.

There *is* a switch with no apparent function.

>All external SCSI devices I have seen have their own PSU; I'm pretty
>sure that the SCSI bus isn't meant to supply operating power for
>anything.  The normal run of things is that you supply mains to the
>internal PSU of each external SCSI device with an IEC lead (the same
>sort that supplies the power to your Mac).

But there's not only no lead, there's no place for the lead to go into on
the device. The only input place is the 50-pin socket where the SCSI cable
goes.

>If it's an Apple CD-ROM drive, the driver software should come with the
>OS.  Which OS are you using?  At least one incarnation of 7.1 has a
>separate disc with the CD-ROM driver software on it, but the CD-ROM
>software arrives with a standard install of the Performa variant of 7.1.

I'm on 7.1. Not the Performa version. I don't recall seeing anything to do
with CD-ROMs on the system disks, but I'll go and check.

>If you've not got an extension called `Apple CD-ROM', it's probably as
>well to try re-installing the OS.

I definitely have no such extension.

Question: if it's *not* on my system disks, is there anywhere I could get
it online?