Re: CMS SCSI card

["Peter Rittwage" <peter@rittwage.com>]

That exact setup works fine for me.  You'd be surprised how much space 32M
is for an 8/16bit machine.  I mean, GS/OS takes a couple megs with all the
accessories and AppleWorks 5.1 is only a meg or so.  You can put most all of
the HD runnable games on the same partition and still have plenty left over.

The only other "limitation" is that you have only 2 partitions active at any
one time, as device 1 and 2 on a given slot for a total of 64M.  You select
which partitions you want active with the bootup utility.  This also allows
you to boot from any partition, so you could have ProDOS-only, GS/OS, or
ProDOS 16/ProSEL, or just a bootable Leasure Suit Larry.

The manual suggests slot 7, but I have mine in slot 1 so it will boot
floppies before the hard disk if they're in the drive.  It doesn't seem to
interfere with the serial port on that slot either, which is nice because I
also have a modem and an AppleTalk connection to a Classic II "fileserver".
I thought it wouldn't work because it's only a ROM1, but I haven't seen a
problem.

Also, there was a disk I dug up for it, but I don't remember using it.  It's
just a ProDOS utility called, oddly enough "SCSI.UTILITY".  I'd be happy to
send anyone an image that needs it.

John L <jdl@biogate.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:59:40 -0500, "Peter Rittwage"
> <peter@rittwage.com> wrote:
>
> >I have one of these and the documentation always refers to the version of
> >the card by the BIOS date (mine is 3/90 or something).
>
> Mine says 3-1-90 and version 2.
>
> >Everything is fairly automatic in that it partitions any drive you put on
it by itself (for
> >better or worse) into enough 32M ProDOS partitions (plus change) to fill
the
> >disk.  If you hold down the "open apple" key at power up, the utility to
do
> >anything you want to do with the drives will come up.
>
> Ok. I will try that out and see how I go.  What about jumper settings
> ?.  Do I need to make any changes from the defaults ?
>
> >You can't change the partition sizes or create anything but ProDOS, but
it
> >works with any drive I've thrown at it, including Zip.  I don't think
CDROM
> >will work, unless you somehow figured out how to burn a CD with 32M
ProDOS
> >partitions!
>
> Unfortunately, being restricted to 32MB and Prodos only is a bit
> limiting.  In any case, I hope to get the card working with a file://e and
> external SCSI Zip drive running Prodos 8.
>
> John
>
>
>
> >David Williams <dlw@advfilms.com> wrote in message
> >news:WmA34.23090$Tp.1008863@typ11.nn.bcandid.com...
> >> From what I've heard, it isn't anywhere nearly as nice as the Apple or
> >RAMFast
> >> cards.  But it's the only one I have at the moment.  Doc and software
is
> >few
> >> and far between.  I've been looking and trying to make mine work for
some
> >> time.  Here is was I've learned.  There are 3 versions of the the CMS
> >card.
> >> The utilities are dependent on the version they were written for.  I
have
> >the
> >> second version.  The only utilities I've been able to locate are for
the
> >first
> >> and third versions.  Only doc I've found are a few notes on some of the
> >Apple
> >> FTP sites.  Some of the comments lead me to think that the jumpers are
a
> >> little different between versions too.  I've currently shelved working
on
> >> getting mine to work.
> >>
> >> -----
> >> David Williams - Computer Packrat
> >> dlw@trailingedge.com
> >> http://www.trailingedge.com
> >>
> >> In article <hedr4sgit7abeo1iv1iknl6pm09llgg4ob@4ax.com>,
> >jlogo@zipworld.com.au
> >> wrote:
> >> >I picked up one of these recently but it came with no documentation.
> >> >How does it compare with the Apple High Speed SCSI card or RAMFast
> >> >SCSI card ?
> >
>