Re: CMS SCSI card

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

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).  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.

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!

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.
>
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> David Williams - Computer Packrat
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>
> 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 ?