Re: RamFAST hardware bug ?

[nathan@winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4psq07$mae@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
BabarStCyr <babarstcyr@aol.com> wrote:
>Recently I buyed a Quantum "Empire" 1080S.
>This is an 1 Gb SCSI-2 hard disk.

>This disk works fine with PC and Mac
>(yes even Mac... ;-).
>It works fine in my Apple 2GS with an Apple
>SCSI rev: C card or with a High Speed SCSI card.

>But it does'nt work with my RamFAST :-<<

   It's been no secret here on c.s.a2 here for the past year or more
that certain Quantum drives do NOT work on the GS because of the
changing specs for SCSI-2. A nice trick (not providing a host ID) was
allowable in original SCSI, but SCSI-2 apparently allows drives to
require that. [Anyone want to compile up a list of these drives to
avoid purchasing?]

   By the way, the name of the card is RamFAST-SCSI, not RamFAST-SCSI-2.
I wouldn't hold out hope for a fix.

Nathan Mates
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