Re: scsi controller availability

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <39146F7A.86B932C5@home.com>, sloopy malibu <sloopym@home.com>
wrote:

>also whats so wrong with the cms scsi card? i have one in my machine hooked to a
>zip and i havnt had any problems with it (it even handles when i eject the disk
>while booted from it acceptably.....)
>
>sloopy. 

I think it's just the speed difference, which probably doesn't matter as
much with a Zip drive. The latter Apple cards used DMA, which gave a huge
boost to transfer speeds and the RAMFast cards had both DMA and a large
cache (up to 1MB in the later versions).


Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
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