Re: Help needed for RamFast and NEC 3x CDROM

[gtolar@blkbox.com (Glynne Tolar)]

Dallas Hockley (hockleyd@dec3300.cuug.ab.ca) wrote:

: Greetings all. I've got a small problem.

: I have recently got ahold of an NEC 3X external cd-rom drive.  Model 500 I
: believe.  I also, as a consequence, purchased the RamFAST 3.01ez upgrade.
: I have the drive running using internal termination and as a SCSI-1 device,
: and I have installed the driver and rom program from the new chip.  The
: problem is, the cd-rom drive will now recognize a disk insert of a High-Sierra
: format CD-ROM, and will accept it, but the disk will not show up on the finder
: desktop.  I tried installing the DRIVE:CD-ROM from the System 6 distribution, 
: but this also did not help.  As far as I know, the drive and card should work
: without a hitch.  I have a ROM 03 box with 6 MB Ram, and I boot of a 105MB
: Quantum for trivia.  I'm also running a 9Mhz Zip Card.  DMA enabled on 
: the RamFast.  If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get the system
: to recognize the CD-ROM I would GREATLY appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.

Go into the RamFAST utilities and under edit select the CD-ROM drive.  
Now enable that partition.  Sorry, for whatever reason the RamFAST will 
not auto mount non-ProDOS partitions (maybe it may do HFS).  The 500 
works fine on the RamFAST!