Re: CMS SCSI card and Ramfast

["Michael J Mahon" <michael.j..mahon@1:124/5009.remove-xtk-this>]

  To: Bill Garber
From: Michael.J..Mahon@familynet-international.net

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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