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Re: CMS SCSI card and Ramfast



On Jun 2, 9:46 pm, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 2, 3:12 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > You'd think that Apple's format would have set the standard, but they
> > simply adapted the Mac scheme, which is pretty top-heavy for an
> > Apple II.  As a result, most other disk controller makers developed
> > their own, simpler, schemes--all different.  ;-(
>
> I would not say that all are different. Many cards use the simple
> "divide drive into 32MB partitions" scheme as this requires no on-
> board RAM to store the partition info during operation.
>
> My Cirtech SCSI cards use this method, as does the CFFA.
>
> Is that what the CMS card uses in later ROM revs? I seem to recall
> that some ROM versions use the many jumpers on the card to select
> partition sizes and offsets.

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