Re: Why do I have to activate CD partitions w/Ramfast???

[jagaroth@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jim Maricondo)]

In article <4b7jee$iqe@nntp3.news.primenet.com>,
John Bowling <johnlb@Primenet.Com> wrote:
>In article <4b2aqk$oec@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
>FermiLevel <fermilevel@aol.com> wrote:
>>I have a ROM01 GS with a 3.01e RamFast.  What bothers me is that I always
>>have to activate all CDs (like GO, AUGE, all the DiskPassage CDs, etc.)
>>via the Ramfast utility to see them in the finder!  I have an EZ135 daisy
>>chained to the Apple CD300e drive and I NEVER have to use RamFast
>>untilities to see HFS or prodos partitions I make on the 135 Mb SyQuest
>>cartridge.  Does anyone know why I have a hard time only with the CD
>>drive?
>
>I suspect the reason for this is that the RamFast writes something out to 
>a drive that will enable/disable it for the RamFast.  The Apple high 
>speed SCSI card ignores this.  The RamFast cannot write to the CD, so it 
>has to be told everytime.

Well, when we mastered Golden Orchard all the partitions were active... so
something it is doing is defaulting them to inactive

 -J
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