Troubleshooting
My Mac Won't Start Up After I Connect a Drive to It
After I connect a SCSI drive to my Mac, it won't start up.
Every SCSI device on each SCSI bus must have a unique SCSI ID on that bus; SCSI devices can have an ID number between zero and seven. When you connect a SCSI device that has the same SCSI ID number as a device currently on the same SCSI bus, your Mac will be unable to start.
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Remove the drive from your Mac.
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Launch Apple System Profiler and click the Devices and Volumes tab.
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Check the device numbers of the SCSI devices on the bus to which you are attaching the drive; there might be more than one SCSI bus, so make sure you are looking at the right one.
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4. | Reset the SCSI ID to an unused number between zero and ... |
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