Re: CMS SCSI card

[John L <jdl@biogate.com>]

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:59:40 -0500, "Peter Rittwage"
<peter@rittwage.com> wrote:

>I have one of these and the documentation always refers to the version of
>the card by the BIOS date (mine is 3/90 or something).

Mine says 3-1-90 and version 2.

>Everything is fairly automatic in that it partitions any drive you put on it by itself (for
>better or worse) into enough 32M ProDOS partitions (plus change) to fill the
>disk.  If you hold down the "open apple" key at power up, the utility to do
>anything you want to do with the drives will come up.

Ok. I will try that out and see how I go.  What about jumper settings
?.  Do I need to make any changes from the defaults ?

>You can't change the partition sizes or create anything but ProDOS, but it
>works with any drive I've thrown at it, including Zip.  I don't think CDROM
>will work, unless you somehow figured out how to burn a CD with 32M ProDOS
>partitions!

Unfortunately, being restricted to 32MB and Prodos only is a bit
limiting.  In any case, I hope to get the card working with a //e and
external SCSI Zip drive running Prodos 8.

John



>David Williams <dlw@advfilms.com> wrote in message
>news:WmA34.23090$Tp.1008863@typ11.nn.bcandid.com...
>> 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.  Here is was I've learned.  There are 3 versions of the the CMS
>card.
>> The utilities are dependent on the version they were written for.  I have
>the
>> second version.  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.
>>
>> -----
>> David Williams - Computer Packrat
>> dlw@trailingedge.com
>> http://www.trailingedge.com
>>
>> In article <hedr4sgit7abeo1iv1iknl6pm09llgg4ob@4ax.com>,
>jlogo@zipworld.com.au
>> wrote:
>> >I picked up one of these recently but it came with no documentation.
>> >How does it compare with the Apple High Speed SCSI card or RAMFast
>> >SCSI card ?
>