Re: Using an Apple HD 20 on a IIGS

[Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>]

sloopy malibu wrote:

> I noticed you use a CMS SCSI card... have you had any problems with it? i
> keep noticing in the faqs it says dont use this card but yet everyone i talk
> to who uses one says they work fine... does yours work ok with the GS/OS
> installer without the CMS drivers? do you use the setup menu for the card?
> any info on it you may give would be appreciated...

I have one in a //e, with a 20 meg hard card. Works just fine.
The one I have in a //gs used to have a hard card with it, but that drive died,
and a friend put a cable on it.
It works just fine with two 40 meg SCSI drives on it. I'm trying to add a third,
but the drive is flaky.

I have another in another //gs, but I haven't had time to test it yet.

Roy

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>
> sloopy.
>
> > From: BARPRI@saif.com (Bart Prine)
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> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 19:16:04 +0000 (UTC)
> > Subject: Re: Re: Using an Apple HD 20 on a IIGS
> >
> >> His suggestion of a SCSI card implied "... and a SCSI hard drive".
> >
> > indeed. David  ;)
> >
> > And that brings to mind one of my GS(s), a different recent thread, and a
> > observation:  I have a GS ROM 03 with a Vulcan 20 hard drive on a  Vulcan
> > card (earlier ROM, rev A?), a Focus drive with a 350meg IDE drive (the OTHER
> > recomended way to go!) and a CMS SCSI card (with the 1990 ROM, a clone
> > thereof; I Have 3 cards one of which was a 1990, now they all are) with 2
> > CMS 40 meg drives, a Rodime 20 and a I donno what it is 100.
> > It says right here: "Thou shalt not mix Focus and Vulcan"
> > but there is a way to get both on the same box: do not boot off EITHER!
> > I boot from the CMS drives!
> > As long as the CMS, Vulcan and Focus driver is loaded on the boot volume and
> > neither the Focus nor the Vulcan does the boot, it seems to work dandy.
> > -Bart
> >
> >
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