Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 23

Fa/con030 Owner's Manual
sure you have the right cable.
4.
Connect the power cable to the power jack on the back of the device.
5.
Insert the three-pronged plug i n to a grounded wall outlet or power strip.
6.
Set the SCSI !D Sw itch accord i n g to the fol l owing g uidel i nes:
a) If the device is a hard disk, it M U ST be set to O. Other hard disks ( i f presen t )
M U ST be s e t i n sequence ( e . g . , 0, 1, 2, 3, etc . ) . N o two hard d isks c a n h a v e the
same setting.
b) [f you are using other devi ces with a hard d isk , use the d i rections above to set the
hard disk, skip a n umber, then set the remaining dev ice(s) i n sequence (e . g . , 0, 1, 2,
l ], 5 , 6 , 7) .
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c ) If there are no hard disks in the daisy-chain (more on t h i s late r ) , start at 0 ami set
any additional dev ices in seq uence.
Note : A lways read the documentation accompanying your SCS I device, or software,
before you set the SCSI ID switch.
Daisy-chaining
Daisy-chaining is a way to connect more than one peripheral dev ice to a s i ng le
port. The first dev ice in the chain connects to the computer, and the rest of the
devices i n the chain connect to each other. For e xample, dev ice A would connect
to the computer, device B would connect to dev ice A. If you are daisy -chaining a
device to the Falcon030, see the manual suppl ied with the dev ice for more
detai led i n format ion.
Precautions
Be sure to observe the fol lowing precautions w hen using any S C S I dev ice w ith
your computer.
A lways sw itch on the S C S I device before switching on the computer.
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D isconnect the SCSI dev ice from the computer, before attempting any
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modifications to the dev ice.
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