USING THE SCSI INTERFACE

A SCSI ID is a unique address you assign to each SCSI device connected to your computer. The SCSI ID range of your computer is from 0 to 7, however some ID's are already occupied.

 

 

Occupied SCSI ID

 

 

 

IBM PC/AT

7

- SCSI host adapter

 

 

 

 

0

- internal hard drive*
Macintosh

3

- internal CD ROM drive**

 

7

- operating system

 

 

 

* IDE Macintosh systems do not use SCSI ID 0 for the hard drive.

** SCSI ID 3 is available on the external bus on Macintosh systems with a dual bus.

Setting the SCSI ID1. Turn off the computer and all connected SCSI devices.2. Turn the SCSI terminator switch (Dip switch 4) to ON.3. Confirm which SCSI IDs are not being used.4.Set the SCSI ID using the upper or lower SCSI ID select buttons.Two operating SCSI devices in the same SCSI chain cannot share a SCSI ID.

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