Re: Which present HD mechanisms are compatible with the RamFast?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...

>From what I've seen posted here to date, we have the following
>information.
> 
>Quantum drives that ARE compatible with the RamFast
>===================================================
> 
>Older drives, such as the LPS series (I used my LPS240 on a RamFast
>                                      once, I think)
>Trailblazer
> 
>Quantum drives that are NOT compatible with the RamFast
>=======================================================
> 
>Fireball
>Empire
>  
>Someone mentioned the Lightning recently, but I forget who it was, and
>whether it worked.

   That was me. I've been using a Quantum Lightning 730 model mechanism
(as of last week, exactly one year) which has been working just fine. 
I've even tested it with three separate RamFAST boards. :)

   I vagely recall having some slight difficulties in reformatting 
and partitioning the drive though. It had been shipped preformatted 
as one large 700MB HFS volume and the RamFAST wouldn't auto-detect it. 
Eventually though, after several reboots holding down '0', I managed 
to access the built-in RF utilities and see the drive. Ever since then
however, I've never had a problem.  

The RamFAST reports the following:

   Device name: QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730S        
 Serial number:

   Device size: 715808K

     Cylinders: 3658
Sectors/tracks: 128
         Heads: 4


Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca