Today’s inSync question comes to us from a familiar place: SCSI purgatory. “I’ve checked the archives and I’ve done the ceremonial chanting that solves most SCSI problems, but it’s JUST NOT WORKING. I have a an EMU ESI-32 and a Power Computing Power Center 120 with both a 2 gig Jaz and a Zip drive all hooked up via SCSI. The problem is that the Mac doesn’t like the zip drive to have a non-Mac formatted disc. It crashes at the most inopportune times. What I’d like to do is have the Mac ignore the zip drive altogether. Is there some way to do this?”
Putting more than one CPU on a SCSI chain has always been an exercise in patience. Just getting anything to work at all is sometimes an accomplishment worth writing about. In this particular case the solution may be a simple one. If you don’t need to use the Zip or Jaz drive with the computer then you can simply disable the Iomega extension in the Extensions Manager for the computer. The next time you reboot your computer it will not know those drives are there and they should work fine with the ESI-32. This same trick also works with CD ROM drives. Just disable the CD ROM extension and the computer will ignore it.
