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Re: RamFast SCSI Question

On 07/25/2010 11:25 AM, Rich Hare wrote:

I've got a RamFast SCSI card in my IIGS (Rom 03) that I've been using
without problems for the last several years. I'm pretty familiar with
SCSI protocols, including termination, term power, and SCSI ID.

I'm trying (without success) to connect to a 1 gig hard drive that is
HFS formatted. The drive works perfectly fine when connected to my
Macintosh (6100 pizza-box Mac), but the RamFast just won't recognize it
in any configuration (first on the chain, last on the chain... etc.).

The RamFast recognizes several other 270 MB HFS hard drives that I use,
with no problems whatsoever. It just won't recognize this drive. It
reports "device is offline".

Am I trying to do the impossible? Is one gigabyte (1060 MB) beyond what
the Ramfast can handle? What IS the limit? 500 MB?

Any suggestions?
Take a look at the docs for the drive and see if there's a way to disable synchronous negotiation and/or disconnect. These are newer notions that may be giving the Ramfast some issues.
I would expect the RF to recognize _something_ on that id even if it couldn't mount it as a volume. 

Steve