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Re: Help with IIgs
- Subject: Re: Help with IIgs
- From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Date: 1996/12/16
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Empsoft
- References: <5804s5$h4n@camel4.mindspring.com> <58d1g6$b1@camel0.mindspring.com> <58q2mh$1e1o@uni.library.ucla.edu> <58ritf$724@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de> <58sb5l$oi4@darla.visi.com>
Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
> In article <58ritf$724@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de>,
> Marvin <guenter@student.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> >Try to get Iomega's Zip Drive. It comes with 100 MB disks and allows you
> >to easily exchange large amounts of data with other Zip drive users.
> >You will need a RamFast SCSI card for that.
>
> Not quite. Apple's HS SCSI cards can handle Zip drives; they
> just can't handle disk switching.
Wrong. The original Apple SCSI card firmware (used under ProDOS-8 only)
cannot handle removable SCSI hard drives.
The Apple High-Speed SCSI card firmware handles them fine.
GS/OS also handles them fine, with either card (it doesn't use the
firmware, except during boot).
--
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail Mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand