Re: SCSI Card & Drive preference

[mhackett@vaxxine.com (Michael Hackett)]

Bill Scheffler <schefflr@news.msus.edu> wrote:

> Sheldon Haynie (haynie@service.bluefin.net) wrote:
> : Please advise preferences for a SCSI card & Drive to add to
> : an IIGS with rev 01 ROM and 1.25 MByte ram
>
>       I recommend the RAMFast SCSI card (Rev. D) because it's the
> fastest one out there and I believe it is the only one still being
> produced.  It is also more compatible with SCSI-2 devices.
>
> : I would prefer to use an EZ 135 from syquest to allow
> : me to prepare disks on a Powerbook

One thing to make note of in your situation, though, is that it is
somewhat tricky to format a disk that can be used on both the Mac and
RAMFast.  The RF doesn't seem to like the Mac driver partition that the
PB requires.  The work-around posted on GEnie is to use the FWB HD
Toolkit to format the disks on the Mac.  This supposedly makes disks
that work with the RF.

Alternatively, the Apple HS card does not have a problem with the driver
partition, and is cheaper.  It is not as fast, however (but I am
perfectly happy with it myself).