Re: accellerated heaven! and SCSI card question

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

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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