>In article 29412@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk, ivan sin <ivan-sin@cuhk.hk> () writes:
>>How can I find out the SCSI id of a IIg printer?
>>Is it id=7 just like the id of a mac system, I guess?
>I may be completely screwed up on this, but as I recall, printers are not SCSI devices, are they? I thought they were just straight-8 devices, or whatever the heck they're called. SCSI id's are reserved for startup devices (internal/external hard drives, floppy drives) and are numbered according to priority at startup. Yes?
The way I think it goes like this. There SCSI bus functions by allowing
each device on the network an identifying number. There are 8 of these
numbers which range from 0-7. Now each device must have a unique number.
The Macintosh I think has number 7 always and this cannot be changed. Hard
drives that are internal are usually number 1, but you could change this by
opening your mac and setting the jumpers on the SCSI hard drive
appropriately. The rest of the devices external can be any number except
ones in use by other devices on the same SCSI bus. I am pretty sure the
manual tells you what ID the Laserwriter is. Don't have it on me so I
can't tell you. Look in the trouble shooting section under "External hard
disk fails to work". That might point you in the right direction :-)
