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  Okay.  I hope to hell someone else has had this problem cuz it is 
confusing the Bejeezus out of me.  Maybe I'm doing something really 
obviously wrong, but I like to think I know about SCSI devices seeing as 
I set them up and configure them for my Mac and IBM "friends"  (You can't 
call a non-amiga owner a true friend, in my book =).
  When I bought my Amiga 3000, I took the Harddrive from my 2000 and 
swapped it in there.  I had removed the terminating resistors from my 
Harddrive (Quantum) when it was in the 2000 because the 2000 also had an 
internal CD ROM drive.  I forgot to terminate the Quantum when I put it 
in the 3000, but for some reason it worked just fine.  So I didn't bother 
to terminate it when I ran across the resistors in my desk drawer.  The 
Quantum was magically working unterminated... so why sweat it?
  Last week I bought a new Maxtor drive.  The Amiga 3000 only fits two 1" 
drives or one Half-height drive.  Although my new Maxtor is a 1", the old 
Quantum is Half-height so I'll have to use it for something else once I 
have copied the contents onto the Maxtor.
   The Quantum is device 0.  It is on the 3000's built-in controller (of 
course).  The Maxtor, is device 6, I just left the jumpers set to factory 
default right now, which is 6.  (Yes, I looked.  I don't believe 
everything I read in manuals.)  The Maxtor is properly Terminated.  I 
should be able to just plug it into the power and make it the last device 
on the SCSI ribbon and copy the Quantum onto the Maxtor and wash my hands.
   So when I plug in the Maxtor and power-up, my 3000 starts up and loads 
my ROMimage off of the Quantum.  (It's one of the old 3000s that loaded 
their ROMs from whichever device was named WB_2.x.)  It loads the ROM 
image fine and reboots.  Once it reboots, it cannot find the Quantum 
drive.  It finds the Maxtor, which is useless due to it having nothing on it.
   I was able to low-level format the Maxtor like this:  I power up with 
only Quantum connected to power.  My ROM image loads... Amiga reboots... 
Amiga finds Quantum just fine and loads workbench.  Then I plug the power 
into Maxtor.  HDToolBox then recognizes both drives and I can partition 
and low level format Maxtor.  Of course, in order to save the new 
settings and mount it, I have to reboot.  As soon as it reboots, the 
Amiga once again can't find Quantum.  Even holding down both mouse 
buttons at startup and listing all the devices won't show me Quantum.  If 
there's power to Maxtor, Quantum don't exist... unless of course I boot 
with Quantum and then plug in Maxtor later.
  The weirdest thing is, it DOES find Quantum long enough to load the ROM 
images from disk... then it disappears.
  I swore.  I figgered I'm doing something wrong and I set Maxtor on the 
shelf to worry about later.
  Then I got my external CD ROM drive out and plugged it in.  External CD 
ROM drive is currently set to device 5.  It is terminated.  If I power up 
with CDROM drive attached and turned on, the system AGAIN can't find 
Quantum after loading the ROM images.
  To sum up: The system can't find my unterminated device 0 quantum 
harddrive unless it is the only SCSI device getting power.  (Its not a 
power problem either or the CDROM drive wouldn't puke... it's powered 
externally).  The only exception is before the Amiga 3000 loads it's ROM 
images, in which case it does find Quantum long enough to load it's ROMs.
  Does anyone have any idea?  I'd be so grateful for advice.

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