Re: Apple IIgs With Apple SCSI card and Zip100 Drive

[Jerry <SNIPawanderin@yahoSNIPo.ca>]

Byron Winmill wrote:

> A2Pro <a2@wilserv.com> wrote:
>>> When you get this working, I'm just dying to know how long it takes GS/
>>> OS to boot. Can you let us know?
>> 
>>    Fortyfive seconds to boot a barebones 6.0.1.  This is on a stock
>> ROM 1 IIgs with a 250 MB Zip drive connected to a revision "C" Apple
>> SCSI card.  The Zip cartridge in the drive is a 100 MB cart with two
>> partitions.  There's a 1 MB RAM card in the memory expansion slot.
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing what performance is like for a 250 MB Zip
> drive, since 100 MB disks in 250 MB units always felt slow to me.
> Particularly for writing.  Then again, maybe the speed of the Apple II and
> SCSI card makes it a moot point.

I don't have an exact number but under a minute sounds right for my Zip250
with a 100MB bootable disk.

-- 
--  Jerry