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

[Bart <pilgrimer@my-deja.com>]

In article <star-E8BD7C.02040520082000@news1.newscene.com>,
  Tanya wrote:
> For the price, the CMS SCSI card does the job, IMO.
I totally agree: I have a GS running a CMS card.  Currently it has 1 40
meg CMS drive partitions 30/10, 1 Rodime 20,  1 LaCie 100 as 4
partitions, and a Bernoulli 90 with 2 carts partitoned as 3 30s each
(to swap you must drag all 3 to the trash then manually eject).
The trick seems to be with the revision date on the card.  Look at the
big fat chip.  If it has a 1990 revision date or a black tape over it
(no text) it is the latest and greatest and acts like a regular old
SCSI card.  Any earlier ones require the proper jumpers set to match
number of drives, partitions of drives and other junk.  Not fun.
One thing: ALL other SCSI cards could learn something from the CMS scsi
utilty program.  It is by FAR the best, easiest and most informative of
any out there. Even the Chinook program which is so-so pales compared
to the CMS one.
  The CMS progy presents the user with a screen that shows 1st all
slots, and a one liner showing which slot the CMS card is in.  use
arrows to select that card.  It now shows all drives and their SCSI Id
#. Select a drive and it presents all partitions and along the way
allows for such things as test, partition, and low level format.  I
WISH my Rev C Apple had such a simple way of telling me what the CMS
one does with no muss no fuss
Speed is not where CMS shines, but then if I wanted speed, why would I
be messin round in the 1-2MHz world anyway?  ;)
-Bart




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