External SCSI

Hello,
Finally got SuSE7.3 for sparc......very nice!  I am in awe of the amount of 
effort and dedication involved in producing such a product.  X86 or Sparc, 
SuSE is the best.

Allow me to show my newbiness/ignorance:

I have an ss5 with 64M ram, 110mHz., cdrom, floppy.  Suse is installed on an 
IBM 4.2G internal scsi drive (/dev/sda).  No probs there.  However I also 
have three other 2.1G drives that I wish to put to use.  When I add one 
internally (shows as /dev/sdb), it is no problem.  I have used the drive 
holder and scsi backplane from a parts machine to house the other two drives 
externally. When I plug this contraption into the scsi port on the back of 
the ss5, the machine locks.  I also can't start up linux when I boot with 
these drives already attached.  I thought I was making the equivalent of a 
411 external drive holder when I did this.  Something must be different.  
It's my understanding that the backplane provides termination?  Do I need to 
do *something* with ID's?  And how?  None of the four drives seem to have any 
jumpers set.  I really could use some pointers to docs, or help before I get 
any deeper or blow something up!  Gotta go to work, but I'll respond to any 
replies this P.M..
Thanks,
Tom
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TRBishop
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SuSE 7.3 Pro

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