Multi-Kache woes!

[dreamer@ods.ods.net]

The following is a retread, with additional info at the bottom:

Ok, once again I'm writing for some help.  I tried months ago to no
avail.  I DO NOT have time to read this newsgroup, so PLEASE write to me
via email only!  I'm a businessman trying to build things up!

The situation started last year.  I purchased a 296Mb CDC hard drive
(SCSI of course) from a friend of mine.  Not knowing the market, I
didn't realize he overcharged me severly for a used drive.  It is "spilt
milk" now.

Well, I have both a //gs and a //e.  I run my BBS on my //e and had
planned to use the new HD on there instead of the 80Mb one on it now.
When I found that the //e could only access the first seven partitions
(with the help of a wonderful HD util by Craig Peterson) I was kinda
bummed, but I later purchased the //gs and switched the 80Mb back to the
//e and put this big one on the //gs.

And my problems began.  Because, while the CDC worked fine (as far as I
knew) on the //e, it was consistently uncooperative on the //gs.  I
thought that it might be the SCSI cable, so I got a new one.  No luck.
(I used the last system version, 6.0.1 or whatever.)  I eventually broke
down and got a Ramfast from Charlie's Appleseeds - still no luck.
Either my //gs is damaged and thus won't work right with a HD (in which
case I would have to find Brad Von Haden in Madison) or there was a
compatibility problem.  I tried the HD on a friend's //gs and
experienced the same problems.  Thus it's almost positively
incompatible.  It works fine on a //e or a mac, tho...

The problems included errors that wouldn't stay in one spot, filename
problems, files disappearing, corrupted subdirs, and numerous other
irksome items.  No matter what I did I was stymied.

Well, I was going to sell off this beast (it's a large HD, FH case) but
on the day I was to sell it (and lose $210 in the process) I thought -
"wait!  If it worked on the //e before, it'll work again, and I'd rather
keep it and use what I can on the //e, which is more than the 80Mb on
there now, rather than sell it and have only one HD AND lose all that
money!"

Then I went about trying to reformat the HD for my particular card,
Ohio-Kache's Multi-Kache card.  Well, in I dove to Craig Peterson's SCSI
HD Utils V.98 program to get my 7 partitions and a useful hard drive.
Lo and behold, the program realizes the card isn't an Apple SCSI card,
and backs out.  Thus, I cannot format or partition this HD at all, since
the //gs/Ramfast can't recognize it now at all, and this program chokes
on the card I have.

The Multi-Kache has proprietary software that must be used to take
advantage of all its features.  I need it for more than just working on
this HD.  If ANYONE can help me get this I would be eternally grateful
to you!  The wonderful guy who sold me the card didn't have the original
software either, sending CMS utils instead, but I can't find that disk
to try it out.  HELP ME PLEASE!

Give what you would like to receive,
Glenn
Lord Wilderness
Internet:  DREAMER@ods.ods.net
MajorNet:  DREAMER@ods

Further notes:
I used both the Apple Hispeed card and the RAMFast Rev D (ROM 2.0?) with System
 6's ADU and the RF's utils to try and beat this rap.  The //gs has the RAMFast
 now, and the //e has the Multi-Kache.
The RF can no longer access it at all, and when I tried holding down keys durin
g a boot, or using the utils in the ROM drive to access the RF the system eithe
r ignored me or crashed, respectively.
The HD in question is a CDC 94171-9 with ID of 5.  The other HD in the
chain is a Digicard Shared Resources Controller with Quantum 80S mech
with no indication of ID #.  The card itself is set to the default for
the computer itself - 7 or whatever.


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