Re: Apple SCSI High Speed Card Driver wanted

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at217@chebucto.ns.ca (Michael Hackett) wrote:
>Willie Yeo (yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au) wrote:
>> Erik Gachot (gachot@sicile.vbe.dec.com) wrote:
>> : 	I'm looking for the Apple SCSI High Speed Card Driver.
>> : 	I have an Apple CD Reader, unfortunatly I'm not able to use it.
>>
>> 	Other question I'd like to ask, which model is your Apple CD 
>> reader ? If it is the new ones, nope... you can't use it. The only Apple 
>> ones that *CAN* be used are the Apple CD SC, Apple CD150 and Apple CD300.
>
>Correction: These are the only models that work with the Apple CD
>driver. I understand that Sequential (as much as I don't think they
>deserve our support) sells a SCSI-2 CD-ROM driver that should allow
>you to use later Apple CD-ROM drives, though I can't guarantee it
>(I don't have the driver or an Apple drive myself).

You are correct.  The Apple HS card is much more flexible than
the RamFAST.  Its only weakness is that there is a dirth of drivers
and it is a bit slower.  Alltech Electronics (http://www.allelec.com/)
was selling the SCSI-2 CD-ROM driver from Sequential.  Eric should
give them a try.  The Apple driver still supports the CD300, an
SCSI-2 device, as a data drive, but it won't recognize audio CDs.
Sequential's driver does both.

The only reason the RamFAST directly supports more drives is that
the driver software was more recently updated and in ROM.

-Scott G.