Re: Apple IIgs With Apple SCSI card and Zip100 Drive

[Byron Winmill <bwinmill@ANTI-SPAM.org>]

A2Pro <a2@wilserv.com> wrote:
>> When you get this working, I'm just dying to know how long it takes GS/
>> OS to boot. Can you let us know?
> 
>    Fortyfive seconds to boot a barebones 6.0.1.  This is on a stock
> ROM 1 IIgs with a 250 MB Zip drive connected to a revision "C" Apple
> SCSI card.  The Zip cartridge in the drive is a 100 MB cart with two
> partitions.  There's a 1 MB RAM card in the memory expansion slot.

I'd be interested in knowing what performance is like for a 250 MB Zip 
drive, since 100 MB disks in 250 MB units always felt slow to me.  
Particularly for writing.  Then again, maybe the speed of the Apple II and 
SCSI card makes it a moot point.

Byron.