Re: Dumb Question: A2E-CDROM - Doable?

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

tturner@ecn.ab.ca wrote:

> --> Thanks to you and a couple of other fine folks for enlightening
>     me. So I need to get my sweaty little mitts on a RamFast SCSI
>     card. Is this an AE card? An Apple card? I seem to recall
>     something about `rev."C"' - is there a `preferred' version of
>     this card that should be used? And I take it that it would
>     need `termination'? And if I actually wanted to boot from a
>     CD-ROM, then it would have to be in slot 7?

They were made by  Sequential Systems. However they're only
available used nowadays. The last and best version of the Ramfast
is the Rev D with the 3.01F ROM.
The last SCSI device on the SCSI chain requires a terminator with
any SCSI card.
Technically you could put the Ramfast in any slot except 3 and boot
off it by doing a PR#x but you'd likely want to use a hard drive as
well so slot 7 would be the best place. The Ramfast has a utility you
can use to choose which SCSI device and partition to boot from
amongst other things.
The Ramfast is definitely the fastest SCSI card for the IIe and
the onboard cache makes reloading something even faster.
Once you've used one it'd be real hard going back to floppies.

    Wayne