Re: Can you tell me about this card?

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4cjpql$d6e@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
> Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:
> 
> : I've come across a possible SCSI card, I'm told it is a "CVS" or something
> : like that.  Is this a useful SCSI card, or do I need to spend the money
> : for one of the market leaders?  Are drivers readily available for the
> : various hard drives, or is a sufficient driver already built into GS/OS?
> 
> Update:  It IS the CMS that I was looking at.  Also, for what it's worth,
> I have a ROM 01 with 5.25Mb RAM and, at present, a 20Mb Vulcan.

I would not recommend using a CMS card.  They use a completely
non-standard partitioning scheme, which prevents you from moving the
drive to another machine with an Apple or RamFast card (or a Mac)
unless you reformat and repartition the whole drive.

The partitions are set up using jumpers on the card.  I am not sure
how well they work with non-CMS drives.  The CMS drive has a set of
DIP switches on the back, and among them is an option for whether it
is running with a CMS card or a "Macintosh" (which presumably includes
Apple SCSI cards on an Apple II), which implies that there is
something unusual about the way the CMS card works.


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David Empson
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