Re: SCSI Device Question

[wrh3c@watt.seas.Virginia.EDU (William R. Hall)]

In article <4kfapf$da9@news3.cts.com>, Jim Stafford <jamess@cts.com> wrote:
>
>Does this mean that I can use a 230 mb Optical drive on my GS? I'd really 
>like to do this!

  Yes, you should be able to use a 230 MB Magneto-Optical (MO) drive.
I'm using a 128 MB Fujitso MO drive on my GS, and it works (almost)
flawlessly with the RamFAST SCSI interface.  I tried it with the
Apple High-Speed SCSI card with no success, but I didn't try any
tricks like leaving a cartridge in when booting.

  The reason I say "almost" above is that there's one thing to be
aware of with the RamFAST.  Do _not_ write-protect the cartridge,
or else the RamFAST will crash the system when you attempt to write
to it.  (The RamFAST doesn't know about the hardware write-protect
switch, tries to write to the cartridge, and crashes when the write
fails.)  Write-protecting with the RamFAST utility ("software"
write protection) works fine.
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William R. Hall  |  wrh3c@Virginia.edu