Re: Why does my CMS SCSI card only let me do 2 32MB partitions?

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

The CMS card has one advantage over all other SCSI cards... it's the only one
I've been able to get my hands on. Oh well!  :-)

Roy

Wayne Stewart wrote:

> Tanya wrote:
>
> > No, that would be the old ST01 card from Seagate.  It only worked with a
> > couple of Seagate drives and didn't even implement the entire SCSI
> > command set!
>
> Ok, maybe I was mistaken and it's actually only the second worst SCSI card
> ever made.
>
> > Frankly, I like the CMS card.   It's cheap, easy to setup, and
> > automatically creates as many 32 meg (or less) partitions as needed to
> > use the entire capacity of whatever drive you connect to it.
>
> It works, yes, and it's better than a floppy drive. However it won't work
> as well as an Apple SCSI card and since he has an Apple SCSI card he'd
> be better off using it. Especially on a IIe where he'll be able to access
> all
> of his 270mb HD instead of just 64mb
>
> My first SCSI card was a CMS and while it seemed alright at the time,
> I soon discovered how bad it was when I had a chance to compare it
> with other cards, especially when using a faster HD.
>
>    Wayne