Re: CMS SCSI card and Ramfast

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Rich" <nospam@saddam.net> wrote in message JeadnUMQgOY4caLVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com">news:JeadnUMQgOY4caLVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com...
> Bill Garber wrote:
> > "Michael Kent" <michael@syndicomm.remove.this.com> wrote in message news:65f75$483f3ea1$4087c017$26733@FOXVALLEY.NET...
> >> Rich <nospam@saddam.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm trying to transfer several volumes of IIGS applications and games
> >>> from one hard drive to a drive I formatted with my CMS (rev C) card.
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>> 2) Barring the above, can anybody suggest a way of transferring stuff
> >>> from one hard drive to the CMS partitions?  100 meg of data would take a
> >>> VERY long time by null modem cable!  A little less, maybe, by 800 K disk.
> >> Can't you just daisy-chain both drives through the same SCSI controller?
> >> I seem to recall that Apple's High-Speed SCSI controller allowed up to
> >> seven devices to be used simultaneously.  Don't the RAMfast and the CMS
> >> controllers behave the same?
> >>
> >> Mike
> >
> > Mike,
> >
> > the CMS SCSI card uses a unique partitioning scheme that won't work on another SCSI card.
> >
> > Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
> > http://www.garberstreet.com
>
>
> Bill,
> You've mentioned that you have a couple of CMS cards.  Have YOU ever
> gotten one to 'play nicely' with another SCSI card in a GS?  How about
> with a CFFA card?  (Another option, although I don't have a CFFA card at
> present).
>
>       () ()
> Rich ('-')


I've gotten an 80MB drive partitioned into 32/32/16, and formatted and loaded
with a minimal GS/OS system. The delay setting is incredibly long, and I will play
with that at some point, but for now, it does boot up and using the CMS driver,
I am able to view and access all 3 partitions on the GS/OS finder.

Your post has inspired me to play with it some more, and as soon as I can get
up from here and get over to the IIgs, I will do just that. I have many configurations
that I can try, and I will post my findings here.  :o)))))))))

and here, and here, and here.  Unless they get that BBS mirror fixed soon. :o))))))

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com