Re: CMS SCSI II card

["Mark Piazza" <piazza@servtech.com>]

The only problem I see with the CMS card is that it is cranky at boot time.
If you don't set the disk seek time very high (2 minutes likely) it won't
see the disk... Also If you feel like restarting the computer you'll need to
shut it off and wait about 10 minutes for it to forget everything... And
boy, are you in trouble if you forget to turn on the hard drive.

Does any one know why this is (slow draining caps?  funny powersupply?)
I had an awful time when I didn't know much about it, I thought it was
broken and sent it back to the company, but when I got it back I got a nice
letter about how the default settings weren't good enough for the computer.



--Mark Piazza (piazza@servtech.com)
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Dan wrote in message <35c333f7.818580@netnews.worldnet.att.net>...
<SNIP>
>OTOH, it is the least expensive new SCSI option available.  I was
>ready to buy a ramfast SCSI, but couldn't justify spending (at the
>time) $130 for a SCSI board for a computer I got for free.  The CMS
>board is less than half that, and works just fine for my use.
>
>Dan
>