Re: CMS SCSI card

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romeo@anet-dfw.com (Romeo) wrote:

>Are there any compatibility or other problems with the CMS card that might 
>affect which harddrive I should buy? I'm probably gonna try to pick up a used 
>drive off of one of the online auction sites. Here's the drive I may end up 
>getting: Seagate ST1480N 1.25" height 420mb SCSI Hard Drive

Here's the problem.  On a drive like that, a typical IIGS user would
have one 32MB ProDOS partition and one 388MB HFS partition.
This will get you 2 partitions on Finder, which looks nice.  A
RamFAST or Apple High Speed SCSI card can do this.

By the way, the Apple High Speed SCSI card LOVES the
Iomega Jazz drive...you would partition 32MB as ProDOS and
the rest of the 988MB as HFS.  ;-)

The CMS card, however, can't make a partition larger than 32MB.
Thus, on the CMS card, Finder would be covered with partitions
(divide 420 by 32 for the number).  That's not pretty.

If you can live with it, get the CMS card.  Otherwise, snoop
around comp.sys.apple2.marketplace for an Apple High Speed
SCSI card (not the Apple SCSI or Apple Rev. C SCSI, make
sure it is the DMA High Speed SCSI model).  It should not
cost too much used.