Re: RamFast 3.01f and Iomega Jaz

["Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>]

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"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Try those drives on a Mac first, it might be the SCSI card that is fried.
> Sorry to
> hear of your troubles. Let me know if I can help.
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> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
> http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
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Bill, one of the things I was trying was to put 8MB of ram into my 03
motherboard and both the RamFast/Apple HS SCSI at the same time. I had my
80MB drive running okay in this config and then went to add the CD-ROM when
things started to go wrong. I had used this CD-ROM on the ramfast before
with no problems.

The 40 MB drive was having problems spinning up the odd time before, and did
work for a couple of days on the RamFast, but now it no longer wants to spin
up at all. The 80MB  drive can be seen on the Apple II HS SCSI card I have.
It takes formatting commands and carries out the motions but when i reboot
the partitions are not there...So something has happened to scamble the
drive bad enough that it won't reformat itself....The Mac sees the 80MB
drive as an "unsupported drive" and refuses to format it with the built-in
Mac tools.  George Rentovich has suggested that I try to format with 3rd
party HD tools like silverlining or FWB. The CD-ROM no longer is visible
when I try it in on the Mac.

The Jaz drive(s) are visible on the Mac but report that the protection
cannot be determined. When I try long format the 1GB cart gets 70% done and
the 2GB gets 20% done before it fails. The Iomega tools also say the drive
life is 0% which for my 1GB cart is scary as i only used it maybe 10 times
in the last 5 years (maybe it has a stale date vs hours in use?)

I am back up on an old Segate ST277N drive I had and an old single speed
CD-ROM for now.

Going to get some more jaz carts and format them on the mac as HFS before
tring to read/write them on the Apple II HS SCSI card.

If the Ramfast continues to act up then I may send it to Joachim Lange for
testing and repair.

I think I must have done something wrong at that one point and then
continued to damage the other drive trying to figure out why it wasn't
working....

I don't like to give up when things don't work and sometimes that it not a
good thing  :o(

Thanks

Glenn