Re: Couple of //e Questions....

[Dave <Nunya@Business.net>]

In article <jeff-9D3FC2.15194421102000@nntp.cts.com>, Jeff Jungblut 
<jeff@nospam.soapzone.com> wrote:

> In article <Nunya-C4A869.15225721102000@news1.newscene.com>, Dave 
> <Nunya@Business.net> wrote:
> 
> > The CMS SCSI cards are *not* crap!!!!   I have one and it works just 
> > fine.  I also have a RamFast rev B that I never use, and an Apple SCSI 
> > that I never use.  
> 
> Sounds like you got one of the later ROM versions.  Mine was 1.1 I 
> believe, dated 1987, and it didn't auto-configure anything.  You had to 
> use the overly complicated documentation to set jumpers on the card (and 
> there were LOTS of them) to configure partition sizes and the offset of 
> the start of each partition, and you were limited to two partitions.  
> Mine also sometimes exhibited a problem where if a partition became 
> completely full, it overwrote the first few blocks at the beginning of 
> the partition, destroying the root directory blocks. Don't know for sure 
> that it was the CMS card, but it happened *only* with the CMS card and 
> never with an Apple card.

Ouch!  That sounds like an ugly bug *and* a crappy card!   Yes, mine is 
a rev 2.1 card with the ROM dated 3/1/90.  The partition limit is 255 
partitions.  The only drawback is only 2 are available under ProDOS - 
there is no "phantom slot re-assigning" like the RamFast does.  For my 
needs 64 meg in ProDOS is plenty.   But you do get to choose which 
partition you want to boot and use.

Under GS/OS all show partitions up on the desktop automatically.

> IMO, they're still overpriced.  An Apple Rev C card works just fine and 
> they're cheaper than the RamFast or Apple High Speed SCSI cards.

I think my Apple card is a rev C, but I'd have to dig it out to check!

Dave