Re: New GS: Lots-o-questions

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:

>There is much argument on this group about which SCSI card is best.
>I'd recommend getting the Apple High-Speed SCSI Card: it is reliable
>and fast enough.  

>The alternatives are the original Apple SCSI card (old and slow, but
>probably cheap if you find one) and the RAMFast SCSI Card.  The latter
>is a lot faster (and more expensive), but I have found them difficult
>to use.  There seems to be a new ROM upgrade every once in a while
>(the Apple High-Speed SCSI card has never needed a ROM upgrade).

  That's true, but the HS SCSI card has had a lot of GS/OS _driver_ 
updates :)  The RamFAST basically has drivers for lots of various
devices built into the card's firmware.  Flopticals for instance
work transparently with a RamFAST in ProDOS 8, but the HS SCSI 
cannot deal with many aspects of the floptical when in ProDOS 8.

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