Re: SCSI disks for GS?

[gtolar@blkbox.com (Glynne Tolar)]

Bill Harris (billh@lsid.hp.com) wrote:
: My TMS Shadow 120MB drive may be dying (it refused to spin up fully two
: days ago, but it worked fine yesterday), and so I'm beginning to think
: about a new drive at some point in the future.  

: My question is: what do I look for, now that Apple II specific drives are
: less and less common.  In particular, is SCSI-II ok with a RamFAST Rev. D?
: I strongly suspect that a fast and/or wide SCSI drive doesn't work, but
: someone can correct me on that, too.

The RamFAST is the least picky of Apple II SCSI cards.  It will dang near 
take any SCSI drive.  Fast SCSI II should work fine.  They just have 
tighter specs (I think).  Wide on the other hand I think has a different 
connector and would not work.  Differential SCSI I don't think will 
work.  SCSI I or II will be fine.  I recently got a Fujitsu 520 meg. 
drive used for $185.  Not a bad drive!  It worked fine with the RamFAST, 
but did not initially work with the HS SCSI.  After fiddeling with some 
jumpers (it has quite a few) it ended up being the one for syncrous 
transfer requests.