Re: Floptical Drives?

[danb@pro-nfug.cts.com (Dan Brown)]

In <1993Mar18.143950.12395@seq.uncwil.edu>
caroon@seq.uncwil.edu (Craig Caroon) writes:

>
>Hi all!
>
>I am interested in buying a floptical drive for my Apple IIGS.
>I have a few questions first though...
>
>3) What type of SCSI card should I get?  RAMFast is the Best, correct?
>   Is ther much difference in speed between the RAMfast 256k and the
>   RAMFast 1mb?  For that Matter is there much differce in speed B/W
>   the RAMFast and the Apple SCSI card?

        The RamFAST is TONS faster than the Apple card.  I don't have
statistics, but it's made almost as much of a difference on my system as my
Zip.

>4) I dont know much about SCSI devices so bare with me; Is it possible
>   to chain other devices..ie a Hard DRive off of the floptical drive?

        Absolutely, and very easily.

>6) Do these drives read and write optically or do they just track optically?

        I believe that they just track optically.


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