Re: AST Visionplus

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Robert Thomas" <RThomas@WWLNK.net> wrote in message
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> I recently bought a ROM-03 IIgs with two cards included. One was a CMS
SCSI
> card which i've heard is inferior to the RamFAST. The other was an AST
> Visionplus card. It looks like a composite video card, but I don't have
> GS/OS to test it out. Mainly because I don't have a HDD.

I would think that you will need special CMS hard disk utilities to
format the SCSI drive.  I had a Mac version and a CMS HD. It would
only format using the CMS utilities.  I don't know if that was the
way with the Apple II drives though.  There were a couple threads
a couple weeks ago on the CMS cards and their usage.  You might
want to check an archive site and search for it.

> I would be very apreciative of any info regarding these cards including
> their stron & weak points.

I had heard that the CMS card won't drive a CD-ROM but some
here claim to have a ZIP drive working on theirs.  Check an archive
site and see if you can find the thread.

The other card that people like is the Apple High Speed SCSI card.
I have one of them but I have not tried it out yet.

> Also, I need to know where I can find the latest/best revision of the
> RamFAST. My searches have been fruitless.

The last revision of the RamFAST was Rev D with ROM 3.1. I
myself have a RamFAST Rev C with ROM 3.0h which seems to
work fine.  The last RamFAST is a smaller card which I have
heard consumes less power and has 1 meg of cache instead
of 256K like my Rev C card.
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