KM> I need some help with a problem i have with my CD Rom, I have an 
 KM> amiga 2000 with 6 meg of memory and a "Mashita quad spin CD Rom" 
 KM>  The problem is when i access the cd, either through directory 
 KM> opus or shell or through my BBS system it keeps locking up and 
 KM> to free it up i have to turn the cd off and it works again for a 
 KM> few min/secs and locks up again, when it locks up it locks the 
 KM> whole system,

Hmmm, that sounds remarkably familiar.  I haven't tested this, but the
advice I have heard is to make your CD the LOWEST POSSIBLE SCSI ID unit on
the chain.  How many hard drives do you have?  If only one, then move the
jumpers around so it's ID is up there about 4-6 or so, and configure the CD
to be 0 or 1 (say).

Termination on my old (ex) NEC CD was simply achieved by flicking a
dipswitch on the back of the CD.  The terminators were there, just a switch
to make them active or not.  Terminators should be present on the FIRST and
LAST devices on the SCSI chain.  If you have only one Hard Drive and the
CD, there should be terminators on BOTH units.

However I found it made not one iota of difference where that terminator
dipswitch was, and it'd still lockup all the same!  I no longer have the
CD, unfortunately :-(

  Mea Culpa,
 Peter Deane

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