Re: SCSI Cards for IIe or IIgs

["Jim Thompson" <pdsrome@roman.net>]

There are also other Apple SCSI cards out there (rev A.....). What are
their strengths or weaknesses?

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in article
<19980923004754.29499.00000479@ng26.aol.com>...
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> >I've seen a moderately inexpensive CMS SCSI card advertised. I know
there
> >is another card called the Ram FAST, along with the Apple High Speed
SCSI.
> >
> >What are the major differences between them?
> 
> CMS SCSI - A piece of ****.  This thing can't support partitions larger
than
>            32MB, so watch out if you have a large drive cause you
>            will be littered with paritions.  Slow card too, no DMA.
> 
> RamFAST - DMA plus caching.  Fast.  However, this card has some
>           compatibility problems with software and hardware.
>           For one thing, you can't use drives that require the
>           controller to have an SCSI ID.  For another, it has
>           DMA problems with  some revisions of both of the IIGS
>           accelerator cards.  Partitions can be much larger than
>           32MB, but only 12 can be online at once.
> 
> Apple High Speed SCSI - DMA controller.  A little slower than the
>          RamFAST, but the most stable and compatible of the
>          SCSI cards.  It will take drives that the RamFAST
>          won't.  It also allows more than 12 partitions online.
>          Partitions can be much larger than 32MB.  It also
>          has NO DMA problems with drives that the
>          RamFAST has problems with.
>