scsi help needed, wrong termination?

[bontu]

Hopefully someone can help me here.

Ok I had an old scsi ricoh 6200s burner (it can't burn anymore, failed 4 consecutive burns and since I don't want to make more coasters, I figure its dead. also it made funny noises when nearing the end of a burn before it failed) it used to be scsi id 0 i believe and on the end of the scsi cable. The ricoh burner also had its own active termination so I didnt need to worry about termination.
also on the cable is a toshiba xm6201 scsi drive it was scsi id 1.

anyways I removed the old ricoh and set the toshiba drive to scsi id 0 by removing the black thingy(what is this called anyway?) that covers the 2 prongs for id1. also I set the termination on the 5th column using the black thingy(am I supposed to do this?, I tried w/o it and I still couldn't access any cds). The problem is when I boot to windows it sees the cd drive (I look in the system devices and the toshiba is recognized as a xm6201ta, and its the E drive), but if I insert a cd, it doesnt see it. The drive acts as if no cd was inserted and the cd unaccessible. So am I terminating it wrong here? do I need to buy some terminating plug instead of using that 5th column setting?

 

[bontu]

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[Dim]

I have only used SCSI on a Mac, so take this with a grain of salt, but..

On the Mac, SCSI ID 0 is reserved for the motherboard/controller. Devices should be set for ID 1-7, and do not have to be assigned in numberical order. Try assigning the Toshiba back to ID 1 or something higher. Did the Toshiba work with the Ricoh left in the chain and the Toshiba was assigned ID 1? How about when the Toshiba is set to ID 0? Still work then? If so, I would lean towards termination as the problem, but if the Toshiba works on ID 1 with Ricoh connected, and then doesn't work when the ID is set to 0, I would suspect incorrect ID setting. Also, what SCSI ID is the Ricoh set at?

Then aggain, maybe the trouble you are having now points to something other than the Ricoh drive - i.e., your SCSI controller/cable/term. I'd hang onto the Ricoh just in case.