Re: CMS SCSI card

[John L <jdl@biogate.com>]

On Wed, 08 Dec 99 21:48:30 GMT, dlw@advfilms.com (David Williams)
wrote:

>From what I've heard, it isn't anywhere nearly as nice as the Apple or RAMFast 
>cards.  But it's the only one I have at the moment.  Doc and software is few 
>and far between.  I've been looking and trying to make mine work for some 
>time.

I've had no luck finding any appropriate documentation for the card.
The seller I bought it from was previously using it in a //e fitted
with a matching CMS 60MB hard drive.  He did mention that he could
only use two partitions for his drive configuration.

> Here is was I've learned.  There are 3 versions of the the CMS card.  

My card  says "CMS (C) 1986  SCSI II" with a date of 10-89 and a white
label on one of the ROMs which reads "A2S V2.0 3-1-90".

>The utilities are dependent on the version they were written for.  I have the 
>second version.

Looks like I have the same one.

>The only utilities I've been able to locate are for the first 
>and third versions.  Only doc I've found are a few notes on some of the Apple 
>FTP sites.  Some of the comments lead me to think that the jumpers are a 
>little different between versions too.  I've currently shelved working on 
>getting mine to work.

A pity.  I was hoping to get a SCSI zip drive to work on mine so I
could transfer stuff from my PC to //e more easily than using ADT.


John