Re: CMS SCSI card and Ramfast

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

Bill Garber wrote:
> "Michael Kent" <michael@syndicomm.remove.this.com> wrote in message news:65f75$483f3ea1$4087c017$26733@FOXVALLEY.NET...
>
> > Rich <nospam@saddam.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I'm trying to transfer several volumes of IIGS applications and games
> > > from one hard drive to a drive I formatted with my CMS (rev C) card.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >
> > > 2) Barring the above, can anybody suggest a way of transferring stuff
> > > from one hard drive to the CMS partitions?  100 meg of data would take a
> > > VERY long time by null modem cable!  A little less, maybe, by 800 K disk.
> >
> > Can't you just daisy-chain both drives through the same SCSI controller?
> > I seem to recall that Apple's High-Speed SCSI controller allowed up to
> > seven devices to be used simultaneously.  Don't the RAMfast and the CMS
> > controllers behave the same?
> >
> > Mike
>
>
> Mike,
>
> the CMS SCSI card uses a unique partitioning scheme that won't work on another SCSI card.

And that's the reason for a standard SCSI partitioning scheme--without
it, daisychaining doesn't work.

-michael

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