re: AppleCD SC Plus woes

["Steve Quarrella" <Steve.QuarrellaNOSPAM@f9005.n393.z1.fidonet.org>]

Hi, Wayne...thanks for the note.

 WS> Which make anf model of CD player do ypu have?

AppleCD SC Plus.  According to Apple's spex on their web site, this thing'll work with a IIgs, although obviously, they reference their own SCSI card.

>> I've got two files on my ROM disk.  One is the RamFast.System software, and
>> the other is the card driver.  So where was this "RF.NEC?"
WS> Once you have the card driver off the ROMdisk you don't need
WS> anything else for data CDs.

So, I'm wondering about the gent who wrote the comment about the RF.NEC driver for the FAQ, as what you're saying jibes with what the RamFast documentation appears to say.  John Zielke has also sent me some drivers to try, and I may actually get to that soon.

 WS> Have you tried going into the ramfast utility program and under
 WS> SCSIUtils, checking if

I run Ramfast.System, hit Apple-E for "Edit," and sure enough, there's the drive at ID6, listed as "SONY     CD-ROM CDU-8002."

 WS> the card sees your drive. If it does, click on the drive and see if
 WS> the CD is listed as Active

I don't appear to have an option to do that.  If I highlight the drive and hit Enter, I get the Ramfast utilities to partition the drive (?!).

 WS> I make the partitions any size with the ramfast software if I'm
 WS> planning on making them HFS.
 WS> After I'm in GS/OS I initialize them HFS. If they're in ProDOS
 WS> format then all I'll see is 32mb.

I'll file that for reference the next time I'm messing with a hard drive. Thanks again.