Re: Max Size

[scraft@trident.usacs.rutgers.edu (Steve Craft)]

>I had a drive for a short time which would not work with my HS SCSI
>equipped machine. It was a Quantum mechanism in a Mac Bottom external
>case. The drive worked great on a Mac but when I tried it on my IIgs
>it would end up with
>brain dead partitions e.g. the bit map pointer would be set to a block
>address out of range for the volume, there would be I/O errors, and the
>brain dead partitions e.g. the bit map pointer would be set to a block
>address out of range for the volume, there would be I/O errors, and the
>Finder would want to eject the devices each time it ran. I got the guy
>to take it back luckily.

The problem is that the Apple HighSPeed SCSI card does not run its
own internal power-termination over the SCSI bus.  Every Mac built
since the MacPlus had this feature added after hard drive vendors
screamed that Apple was acting irresponsibly by not adding this SCSI
"standard" feature.  Of course, the RAMFast/SCSI card supplies this
power ovre the bus.  I have a HP mechanism in my hard drive, and it
didn't work with my Apple HS SCSI card because of the above reason.
I had to get a RAMFast, something I should have done in the first
place. :)  

I've wondered why Apple wouldn't supply this SCSI standard feature
on the II when it has on every Mac since 86 or so...

The above info came from D. Proni, the Pegasus guy.  I got to talk
with him directly after having some HD problems.  Another reason
to get a Pegasus - support is unparalleled!

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