re put ex syquest in centris i ve just installed a tape backup in my c lot of the issues are the same so to answer your questions in article apr cstp umkc edu kmoffatt cstp umkc edu writes my pli m syquest drive has a wire from the drive to an id switch on the outside of the case where do i connect this switch can the computer just tell with internal drives you probably want to hard wire the scsi id with shorting jumpers put it at a convenient number like you could cut a hole in the back of the machine to route the id switch but why go through the hassle you probably won t be needing to frequently change the id of your internal drive i noticed that the drive will lay over part of the motherboard i didn t look closely but i seem to recall it laying over the ram that s soldered onto the motherboard would that cause problems yeah when i first installed the tape drive i was a little concerned too but it s no problem the device is designed to fit just fine with the overhang it shouldn t reach back beyond the rom ram vram simms though one last question is there anywhere to order a faceplate cover the drive s front panel is smaller than the space left in the case the drive s panel is the same size as the spotsbm clone s cases should i just cut a hole in the plastic panel that is currently holding tmpty place you can special order parts to mount the device from your local apple dealer the relevant parts are blank bezel faceplate cd rom carrier i e generic device mounting bracket note apple s unfortunate choice of name for the slide in bracket to mount a device the service techs i talked to said oh sure we stock those of course they were thinking of the cd caddies to hold a cd disk when you stick it in the drive as far as i can tell apple does not sell a bezel faceplate already cut out for a standard device why not they advertise these machines as being able to accept any standard device in the bay why not provide the faceplate they do sell a cutout for their cd rom drive of course but that s of no use i m going to hack up the extra bezel i ordered to make a cutout for my tape drive which is a standard device good luck with your syquest fred
