Re: Hard Drive Help needed!

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Auri Rahimzadeh (ek361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:

: : I want to add a hard drive to my enhanced //e.  However, I do
: : know just how to accomplish this feat.  I have neither a hard
: : drive nor a SCSI card yet.  I am thinking of purchasing the
: : Apple II High Speed SCSI.

: Buy a RAMFast SCSI.  Apple High Speed SCSIs are slow, and are
: not made/supported anymore.  Plus, the RAMFast supports the newer
: SCSI-2 protocol drives, making it compatible with all of the
: SCSI drives today! :)  (or at least most of them, cough cough)

No, SCSI-2 is backwards compatible with SCSI-1 of which the RamFAST and
Apple HS SCSI card both support.

RamFAST could fully implement SCSI-2 support, but it involves transfers
speeds higher than what the Apple II bus will handle (max of Apple II
hardware is 1 mb over 1 mhz bus DMA).

Joseph
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