Re: CD ROM drive on //gs

["Richard A. Cini" <rcini@msn.com>]

The hunt for a *real* scsi card begins...Alltech doesn't list SCSI cards for
some reason. I have to check MC Pricebreakers. Any other possibilities,
besides eBay?

I got the CMS card as part of the deal for the machine. Lacking original
documentation I naturally assumed that a CD would work.

I seem to always forget what happens when I assume...

Thanks for the help.

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Supertimer wrote in message
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>"Richard A. Cini" <rcini@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>Ed:
>>
>>    Thanks for the comments. I'm familiar with general SCSI issues as I
use
>>SCSI on all of my PeeCee computers. The gs has a CMS SCSI card.
>
>Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the CMS SCSI card does not
>support CD-ROM drives!
>
>You'll need a RamFAST or Apple High Speed SCSI card (the Rev. C
>will work too but if you are looking for an Apple card, the High Speed
>version is the best and will give you less trouble).
>
>The CMS card cannot support a partition larger than 32MB and as
>you can imagine, most CD-ROMs are single partition 650MB volumes.
>
>The reason the IIGS can support most standard Mac and PC CD-ROM
>formats is because it is file system independent so ProDOS' 32MB
>limit is irrelevant to the IIGS.  It can use ISO9660 or HFS at will.  But
>with the CMS card, the 32MB limit is in the SCSI card too.  That's
>why the CMS SCSI card will not work with your CD-ROM drive.