Re: FS: Apple HS SCSI card Utility Disks

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960827015636.53504A-100000-100000-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>,
 <cshank@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> wrote:
>On 26 Aug 1996, Will Baguhn wrote:
>
>> Sorting through my stack of disks, I found the two High-speed
>> SCSI Card utility disks.  The first one has the various partitioning
>> and formatting and whatnot utilities; the second has GS/OS drivers
>> for Scanner and Tape Backup.  $5, I'll mail 'em to ya.
>> 
>> The disks seem to be OK, just useless to me since I have a RamFast.
>> Someone had been looking for them, I believe.
>
>I gather the High Speed SCSI Card's DMA feature is not supported by the 
>RamFAST card. I always wondered why my GS would crash when booting with 
>DMA enabled. IF I am correct in this, which RAM cards do support DMA?
>
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You seem to be confusing hardware.  Most of the "quality" Ram cards
for the IIgs support DMA, at least for the first 4 megaybtes (IIgs
motherboard limitation).  The RamFast, however, is another variety
of DMA SCSI controller... the software is incompatible.

I don't know how I got the disks, as I've never had an Apple HS SCSI
card, but the disks are useless to me as I stil don't have one.

I'm also unlikely to get one, because I love my RamFast.

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