Re: Can IIGS use this CD-ROM drive?? -- Drivers

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apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ISCA AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>>      Asimov-GS has a pretty good collection of Sys6 stuff. The file
>> SYS6DRIVERS.SHK may have the drivers you need. It can be found at ...
>> 
>> ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/System/ .
>> 
>
>Thanks, I'll look and compare with my System 6.0.1 drivers.  They seem to
>be the standard Apple drivers, with the Ramfast SCSI2 drivers added.  I
>don't know the name of the SCSI2 media control drivers I need, but none of
>the drivers names in this file seemed appropriate to me.  It is quite
>possible that the scsi2 drivers kept the same name as the original scsi "1"
>drivers, but then how would one use both a CDSC or CD150 and a SCSI2 CDRom
>drive on the same system?  (Not that I would want to try this combo :-) )

The file that's on apple.cabi.net does indeed comprise of 1) the
System 6.0.1 drivers, 2) the RAMFast SCSI2 drivers and 3) a
collection of freeware release drivers by Burger Bill that later
became Harmonie (after rewrites).

First of all, none of these drivers are or will do what the Sequential
SCSI2 drivers FOR THE APPLE HIGH SPEED SCSI card did.

Second, these drivers do not appear to be from the Harmonie
package.  Look on ground or caltech in the drivers folder and
you will find a pre-release collection of drivers.  These are
also on Apple II CD-ROM archives.  Apparently, it is completely
legal to distribute these pre-release drivers because they are
basically crippled demo drivers released by Burger Bill, complete
with a text file calling on people to watch for the upcoming
release of Harmonie by Vitesse.

Now, whether Burger Bill wanted the drivers to be distributed
without the associated text file only an email to Burger Bill will
clear up.

>Could David Empson post the exact names/dates of the Apple Hi-speed SCSI2
>drivers that I am looking for? (if he can still find his Sequential disk).
>Thanks!
>
>Personal note:  Although I have spent a year looking for the SCSI2 drivers,
>it is _not_ a high priority.  I have the Toshiba 2x drive on my main Rom3
>GS.  I hooked a CD150 up to a spare GS and it sits near-by, hooked up to
>my stereo amp.  Its sole function at this point it play audio CDs with
>the CD150.  I think it would be more energy efficient to play audio CD's
>from the Toshiba CDdrive on the main GS and leave the spare GS turned off.
>On the other hand, with this setup I can use DiskQuest and play audio CD's
>at the same time! Wow.  The challange is to actually buy a disk of the
>SCSI2 drivers that Sequential used to sell - I don't actually need it.
>
>Happy computing!

I would love to learn more about the mysterious Sequential Drivers
myself.  David Empson, you lucky dog, how did you manage to
get a copy!