Re: IIgs and CMS SCSI

[airmaster@KCUF.org (KCUF airmaster)]

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 03:11:01 +1300, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>Rick Hatton <hattonr@aug.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to hook my SCSI Zip drive to my IIgs. Is a CMS SCSI card
>> adequate to do this?
>
>I would strongly discourage it.  The CMS card is designed to work with
>CMS hard drives, and not much else.  I don't know if it can handle
>removable SCSI devices (the original Apple SCSI card's firmware cannot,
>and the CMS card is about the same level of antiquity).  It might not be
>able to handle more than 64 MB either, so even if you can get the card
>to work with the ZIP drive, you may not be able to access all of the
>disk.
>
>Another problem is that the CMS card doesn't support the standard
>partitioning scheme used by other Apple II SCSI cards.  It uses a set of
>jumpers on the card to configure the partition sizes, and doesn't
>support the partition map mechanism at all.  In other words, it uses
>"hard partitioning".
>
>See if you can get hold of an Apple or RamFast SCSI card, which follow
>all the standards as far as partitioning goes.
>
>Note that the problem with non-support of removable devices only applies
>to the original Apple SCSI card, not the high-speed one, and even then
>it only applies under ProDOS-8.  You just need to be careful not to
>switch disks without rebooting, because it won't realize that a new disk
>(potentially with different partitioning) is in the drive.
>
>-- 
>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

I thought CMS sucked shit when they were new and about all you could get, and I
doubt my opinion will change now.

What's the fastest one can accelerate a GS?  This IBM PC shit is for the birds,
and Macintosh - ugh - you have to be stupid to use one of those and like it.


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