RamFAST & CD-ROM problem

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

I'll post this again, because my newsreader was VERY fritzy yesterday, 
and I don't know if it got posted.  Here goes...

As most of you know, I recently purchased an AppleCD-300ePlus.  It works 
great, although a new problem has risen.  Every time I power up the GS 
after I haven't used it in awhile, I get past the boot thermometer, then 
the system drops back into the 80-col. text mode, with the original 
startup text at the top and the bottom of the screen, with every other 
character missing.  Also on top of this, in the upper left of the screen, 
is the RamFAST "searching the SCSI bus" message, also with every other 
letter missing.  Of course, the system just freezes until I reset.  After 
a reset, it's fine, and boots normally.  This ALWAYS happens, and it 
ALWAYS works after just 1 reset.  This just started after I added the CD 
drive to the SCSI bus with my hard drive, and nothing else.  I have a 
RamFAST Rev.D 3.01ez 256k, and I already had those "problem" chips 
replaced by sequential.  It shouldn't matter, but knowing the GS, does it 
not like having the hard drive at the end of the SCSI chain?  The hard 
drive ID number is locked at 6, and the CD drive is on 1.  Oh yeah, I 
already have the RamFAST's "short timeout" option set to YES.  Any 
advice?  Thanks in advance!

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