Re: CMS SCSI card and Ramfast

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Michael Kent wrote:
> Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
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> > the CMS SCSI card uses a unique partitioning scheme that won't work on another SCSI card.
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> I didn't know that.  Thanks for the info.

Actually, there are few SCSI cards that use the *same* partition table
format--it's a mess.

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.  ;-(

This situation is also true in the IDE and CF drive arena, though
having only "master" and "slave" drives reduces the daisy-chaining
opportunity somewhat.

The place where it hurts most is in sacrificing interchangeability
of recorded media between controller cards, especially since CF media
is removeable.

-michael

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