SyQuest and Apple DMA SCSI card

[slhood@bluemoon.use.com (Stephen L. Hood)]

I have an Apple DMA SCSI card in my ROM 01 IIGS.  I am using a SyQuest 44 
megabyte removable hard drive and a Quantum 85 megabyte hard drive with 
this card.  After several severe headaches, I was able to get both drives 
working together (and with the proper partition booting first) by manually 
yanking all internal resistors and terminating the chain externally.  The 
system now boots the Quantum 85 properly. 

I am experiencing two small problems, however.

1.  When going to ProDOS 8 from GS/OS, the system pauses at the splash 
screen to check the SCSI chain.  It scans the Quantum, and then scans the 
SyQuest.  However, if I do not have a cartridge in the SyQuest (usually I 
don't), the system hangs, reading the drive continuously.

2.  From GS/OS, it usually takes two to three tries before the GS 
recognizes an inserted cartridge.  Since inserting a cartridge and waiting 
for it to spin up to speed takes over 15 seconds, this gets to be 
annoying.

I'm pretty sure this is the fault of the Apple DMA SCSI card, which I know 
isn't exactly the best at handling removable media.  My question, then, is 
this:  is there a GS/OS driver available for the SyQuest and the DMA SCSI 
card?  Or should I junk it and get a RAMFast rev.D v3.0 1 meg?  (Keep in 
mind that the former would be preferable due to finances...)


Thanks for any advice!


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