Re: SCSI Device Question

[jamess@cts.com (Jim Stafford)]

William R. Hall (wrh3c@watt.seas.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: In article <4kfapf$da9@news3.cts.com>, Jim Stafford <jamess@cts.com> wrote:
: >
: >Does this mean that I can use a 230 mb Optical drive on my GS? I'd really 
: >like to do this!

:   Yes, you should be able to use a 230 MB Magneto-Optical (MO) drive.
: I'm using a 128 MB Fujitso MO drive on my GS, and it works (almost)
: flawlessly with the RamFAST SCSI interface.  I tried it with the
: Apple High-Speed SCSI card with no success, but I didn't try any
: tricks like leaving a cartridge in when booting.

:   The reason I say "almost" above is that there's one thing to be
: aware of with the RamFAST.  Do _not_ write-protect the cartridge,
: or else the RamFAST will crash the system when you attempt to write
: to it.  (The RamFAST doesn't know about the hardware write-protect
: switch, tries to write to the cartridge, and crashes when the write
: fails.)  Write-protecting with the RamFAST utility ("software"
: write protection) works fine.


I have a Apple High Speed scsi card. Does anyone know if a mo drive will 
work with this? Do you kneed any special drivers?

Thans again,

jamess