Re: CF with Ramfast

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On Jun 13, 12:30 pm, Wayne Stewart <waynejstew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was trying to get an ide to compact flash adapter to work with an A-
> card SCSI to ide adapter. Didn’t have any luck so I thought I’d spring
> for one of those SCSI to Compact Flash adapters from Mechware. It
> arrived yesterday so I’ve been busy. Looking for a system to copy over
> to it I pulled out a IIgs with a Vulcan HD and a ZipGS. First SCSI
> card I chanced upon was an Apple Hi-speed SCSI card. Worked well
> enough but the Vulcan was booting a bit faster. Dug out a Ramfast rev
> D and it did a lot better easily beating the Vulcan. Next I pulled out
> my CFFA card and copied it’s system over. Compared them and the
> Ramfast was a fair bit faster.
> A while back I ended up with a few 128mb CFs so that’s what I’ve been
> using but I know there’s a lot faster CFs out there. Mainly 128mb is a
> little on the small side. Don’t mind spending a few dollars but I’m a
> little concerned with compatibility. Pulled a 4gb Lexar out of a 9600
> but that doesn’t seem to be compatible. I can format it but when I
> copy to it the IIgs tends to crash. Unless someone’s got a suggestion
> of some currant CF, I guess I need to hunt down some older CFs.
> Probably I should have done this a few years back when smaller CFs
> were in the stores.

I use a Sandisk 8 GB on Rich Drehers CFFA card.  I wrote a driver that
allows me to have 256 drives of 32 MB each.  Only works under Prodos 8
though.  But does not affect what GSOS sees.  Can still have up to 14
of the 256 drives show up on GSOS.

I paid $40 for 8 GB.  Don't know how this card works with a SCSI-CFFA
adapter.  But I have had good luck with Sandisk.

Rob