Re: accellerated heaven! and SCSI card question

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.za>]

Mark Are there any more "SCSI" cards like that around? I need one and I'm in
the Southern Hemisphere :-)

On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 08:00:54 +1000, Mark Cummings wrote:

> David,
>
> I think I beat you on the bargains, my AHS card & User Manual only cost
> $5AU (~$2.50US). I didn't even realize it's value until weeks later. It
> took me over 6 months before I even used it because I didn't have any SCSI
> HDDs to try it with.
> Next you will want to know about the 4 dip-switches in the bottom left
> corner. To save you asking...
> the 1st is for DMA ON/OFF (ON=closed=down=default). The other 3 (2, 3 & 4)
> set the SCSI address of the card, all ON=closed=down makes a SCSI address
> of 7 which is default. So basically set all dips down and set your SCSI HDD
> to other than 7 and it should work.
> There is a mod available where you can add a diode (1N4148 or 1N914) to the
> card to provide termination power, which is needed for some SCSI
> peripherals/ or terminators (can't remember which). Anyway I am not using
> this mod on two different Quantum 40M & 80M drives from compact Macs and it
> works fine. Also I don't use a terminator.
> I will e-mail you a .gif diagram of the mod just in case you ever need it.
> You may also need the AHS Utilities disk which came on both a 5.25 & 3.5
> disk. I had to create my own as the software was missing from my card. You
> can however use Advanced Disk Utilities or Chinook Utilities to set up a
> HDD. ADU is included with System 6.0.1. (from memory)
>
> Mark
>
>
> David\Julie Wilson wrote in message ...
>>Mark,
>>
>>    Thanks a bunch. Man did I get a buy! It's a high speed card! Cool!
> Along
>>with a GS ram 4 meg card, the zip accelerator card, some sort of
>>sound/digitizer card that I can't recall the name of at the moment and a
> Rom
>>01 cpu, I got the AHS card, lots of software and extra cables. All for
> $100.
>>Thanks!
>>
>>David
>>
>>
>>"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
>>3b18dd20@news.iprimus.com.au">news:3b18dd20@news.iprimus.com.au...
>>> David,
>>>
>>> The AHS card has 2 squareish VLSI socketed chips in the top right hand
>>side,
>>> whereas the Apple SCSI card has a large 40pin chip.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> David\Julie Wilson wrote in message ...
>>> >I just got a Zip Gs card for my IIgs. WOW! It's a totally different
>>> machine!
>>> >I cannot believe the difference. It is totally awesome. I highly
>>recommend
>>> >getting one of these if you can find one.
>>> >
>>> >I also acquired an Apple brand SCSI card. How can you tell if it's a
> high
>>> >speed card or not? It just says Apple Computer on it along with the
>>several
>>> >numbers it has. There is a sticker that says something to the effect of
>>> >Apple Computer....1990 on it also. Also, is a SCSI terminator that plugs
>>> >into one of the centronics type slots on an external drive case
> something
>>> >easy to find, like at radio shack or some place, or is that an item one
>>> must
>>> >order? Thanks again for all the help!
>>> >
>>> >David
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>

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