Re: Toshiba CD-ROMs and IIgs compatibility

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Thu, 03 May 2001 04:59:25 GMT, a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca
(Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>    Back in October I acquired both model CD-ROM drives, yet neither
>one worked successfully with my RamFAST. Essentially they were
>both recognized and showed up just fine in the RamFAST's built-in
>menu options (the drive's firmware listing, size of any CD mounted,
>and in the case of HFS discs, even a volume label given) *but* as
>soon as I entered the IIgs Finder or any GS/OS applications, the
>drive was ignored. The OS simply refused to poll or scan the drive.

I had the same problem when I first tried to use a CD-ROM drive
attached to the RamFAST my hard drive was connected to.  I think that
the RamFAST just doesn't work well with CD-ROM drives.

What I ended up doing was installing an Apple High Speed SCSI card in
the same machine and hooking the CD-ROM drive up to it and it has been
working fine ever since.  This also allowed me to repartition the hard
drive connected to the RamFAST so that it now has 11 ProDOS partitions
and 1 HFS partition.  If I ever want to hook up any of my other SCSI
drives, I just hook them up the the AHS SCSI cards chain and I don't
need to bother with making some of my hard drive partitions inactive
to be able to use the other drives.

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 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com