Re: accellerated heaven! and SCSI card question

["David\\Julie Wilson" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Mark,

    Yeah, you may have beat me on bargains. I didn't get a user manual with
mine. :)

    Thanks for the info. I've got a SCSI external CD-ROM and was just about
to read the FAQS to see what I needed to do to get it working.

David

"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> David,
>
> I think I beat you on the bargains, my AHS card & User Manual only cost
$5AU
> (~$2.50US). I didn't even realize it's value until weeks later. It took me
> over 6 months before I even used it because I didn't have any SCSI HDDs to
> try it with.
> Next you will want to know about the 4 dip-switches in the bottom left
> corner. To save you asking...
> the 1st is for DMA ON/OFF (ON=closed=down=default). The other 3 (2, 3 & 4)
> set the SCSI address of the card, all ON=closed=down makes a SCSI address
of
> 7 which is default. So basically set all dips down and set your SCSI HDD
to
> other than 7 and it should work.
> There is a mod available where you can add a diode (1N4148 or 1N914) to
the
> card to provide termination power, which is needed for some SCSI
> peripherals/ or terminators (can't remember which). Anyway I am not using
> this mod on two different Quantum 40M & 80M drives from compact Macs and
it
> works fine. Also I don't use a terminator.
> I will e-mail you a .gif diagram of the mod just in case you ever need it.
> You may also need the AHS Utilities disk which came on both a 5.25 & 3.5
> disk. I had to create my own as the software was missing from my card. You
> can however use Advanced Disk Utilities or Chinook Utilities to set up a
> HDD. ADU is included with System 6.0.1. (from memory)
>
> Mark
>
>
> David\Julie Wilson wrote in message ...
> >Mark,
> >
> >    Thanks a bunch. Man did I get a buy! It's a high speed card! Cool!
> Along
> >with a GS ram 4 meg card, the zip accelerator card, some sort of
> >sound/digitizer card that I can't recall the name of at the moment and a
> Rom
> >01 cpu, I got the AHS card, lots of software and extra cables. All for
> $100.
> >Thanks!
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> >> David,
> >>
> >> The AHS card has 2 squareish VLSI socketed chips in the top right hand
> >side,
> >> whereas the Apple SCSI card has a large 40pin chip.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>
> >> David\Julie Wilson wrote in message ...
> >> >I just got a Zip Gs card for my IIgs. WOW! It's a totally different
> >> machine!
> >> >I cannot believe the difference. It is totally awesome. I highly
> >recommend
> >> >getting one of these if you can find one.
> >> >
> >> >I also acquired an Apple brand SCSI card. How can you tell if it's a
> high
> >> >speed card or not? It just says Apple Computer on it along with the
> >several
> >> >numbers it has. There is a sticker that says something to the effect
of
> >> >Apple Computer....1990 on it also. Also, is a SCSI terminator that
plugs
> >> >into one of the centronics type slots on an external drive case
> something
> >> >easy to find, like at radio shack or some place, or is that an item
one
> >> must
> >> >order? Thanks again for all the help!
> >> >
> >> >David
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>