Re: HELP:Trouble With //GS SCSI Card

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CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:

>supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
>
>>So set the Apple High Speed SCSI card's ID to 2 and
>>set your hard drive ID to (for example) 6 and see what
>>happens.
>
>Personally I agree with David that you should set the SCSI cards ID to
>7 at all times so that it has the highest priority on the SCSI bus.

Ok, then please explain to me what RamFAST users do?
The RamFAST has NO SCSI ID of its own!

>It is far better to turn your SCSI devices on and let them warm/spin
>up before you turn on the computer.

SCSI ID 2 for the Apple High Speed SCSI card (the ID for
the card, not the drive) pausing is a feature.  Why not
use it?  I've used it for years without problems.  I have a
hard drive, a CD-ROM, and a Zip drive on the chain and
my controller's ID is set to 2 so that I can turn on my
entire system at the same time and have enough delay
for the hard drive to spin up.  It works.  It has always
worked.

Why would I not want to use this feature?

Besides, my hard drive is powered from the same PC
power supply as my IIGS motherboard.  I have a
towerized IIGS.  It is kind of hard for me to power on
the hard drive first.  ;-)  For me, setting the Apple High
Speed SCSI card's ID to 2 to get the 5 second delay
is the only real option.

>I did that for ages before I got a RamFAST SCSI card in my main
>machine which will wait up to 45 seconds for drives to appear on the
>SCSI chain.

See, even the RamFAST has a similar feature.  Asking
an Apple High Speed SCSI card user to not use the
delay feature is the same as asking a RamFAST user
to turn on the hard drive(s) before turning on the
computer.