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Re: Using 20SC with //GS?



marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller) writes:
>I need some hard drives for my //gs. I was thinking of using the
>RAMFast SCSI card and some 20SC external hard drives.

>I'm planning on replacing whatever's inside the 20SC cases with a more
>modern 2+ gig hard drive and daisy chaining them together.

Watch out. The RAMFast is not compatible with modern SCSI-2 drives because
it uses the single-initiator option of the SCSI-1 standard (in essence it
does not have a SCSI ID for the host adapter).

The Apple Rev C and High Speed SCSI cards do not have this problem.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia