Re: System 6 & HFS Volumes

[shack@pro-ict.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

hskim@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (H S Kim) writes:

>The Apple SCSI card has 341-0803 AppleCopr 1989 sticker on it. The card
>itself has AppleComputer 820-0153-A 1990 which leads me to believe that
>this is a Rev A card.  It has 4 dipswitches which I assume is for ID#s.
>They are currently all closed.

That's a High Speed card. The old cards have a set of molex pins and a jumper
istead of DIP switches. Three of the switches set the ID and the other
determines whether the card uses DMA transfers.

>I've put the SCSI card in slot 7 and boot off slot 6 (Innerdrive) and
>hope that my HD will show up in the Finder as HFS volumes but the card
>only wants to initialize the drive.  How ca I get it to read the HFS
>partitions with this SCSI card?  Will I have to shell out and get the
>Apple DMA card or RamFast?

Sounds like the ol' no terminator power trouble. It will cause a drive to
work on a Mac but not on a II. You already have the DMA card.
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