Re: Help: The Best SCSI Cards???

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

fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:

>>I'm curious, which is the best SCSI card for the IIgs, an Apple
>>High Spped SCSI card or a RamFast SCSI Card?  How much do they cost,
>>where do I find them, and which one is better?  By the way does
>>the Ramfast card give the IIgs extra ram?  If anyone can help me here
>>please e-mail me or post your answer.

>Dunno which is the best ( I vote for RamFAST ), but RamFAST is the fastest
>card for sure.

>RamFAST 256k is about $170, 1mb just over $200.  Apple High-Speed SCSI is
>about $100.

>The cache RAM on the RamFAST can only be used by RamFAST.  Which one to get
>depends on how much speed you need/want and how much are you willing to
>pay.

>Both are good buys.

HOWEVER:
^^^^^^^

I sent my Pegasus internal SCSI HD to Econ to have a HP-mechanism
220meg hard drive mounted inside the case.  I couldn't figure out how to
do it, so I sent it to them.  Well, these mechanisms (and a few others,
as D. Proni told me) have funny termination schemes compared to Quantum
and Conner and some others.  My Apple High-Speed SCSI card was probably
having some weird times figuring out what this weird terminator signal was,
so it decided to eat my entire hard drive. 

I was told that the HighSpeed SCSI card has undergone several ROM revisions
dealing with funny HD power termination.  But the RAMFast has no problems
with anybody's termination.  So you might want to plunk down the extra
cash for a RAMFast so you know everything will work with it.

By the way, can anyone out there at Apple verify the latest ROM revision on
the HS-SCSI card?  I'm 95% sure I'm going to have to order new ROMs or 
something, since I bought my card in February and dunno if they are free
or what.