Re: CMS SCSI

[tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator)]

In <22357@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
mock@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Kenrick Mock) writes:

>Hehe, you got it...I still have TWO old CMS drives.  I've done away
>with that crummy CMS II card though.  The thing is one of the slowest
>SCSI cards I've seen.  For anyone with a CMS II card and drives, I
>recommend you scrap it and buy a RAMFast instead :)

Not entirely true.  While the older ROM versions of the CMS card were indeed
sloooow, the newest revision (3-1-90) is fairly zippy.  I have since moved
to the Apple DMA High-Speed SCSI Card and did some speed comparisons.  The
new ROM CMS card is only marginally slower than the Apple card with DMA
turned on.  I switched to the Apple card mainly for compatibility reasons.
It doesn't keep up with the RAMFast in raw speed, but unlike the RAMFast,
how often do you see a post about someone having trouble with their Apple
card?  I'll answer that: never.

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