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

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

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.
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