Re: SCSI Card

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Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in 
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With the 15MHz Zip do you run your Ramfast Rev. D? with DMA on or off?


> Maybe theoretically but I've timed the Apple Hi-Speed and Ramfast doing 
> various things in GSOS and the ramfast usally outperforms the Hi-Speed 
> SCSI card about 2-1. That's using the same computer and hardware, just 
> switching SCSI cards. Maybe at lower speeds the Apple card looks better 
> but at 15mhz the Hi-Speed SCSI card is so much slower that sometimes 
> when I'm using one I think the IIgs has crashed. I've tried it with 
> several Apple Hi-Speed SCSI cards and the Ramfast always wins by a huge 
> margin. With my Ramfast I shift boot my system in 7 seconds, the
> Hi-Speed 
> takes 16 seconds
>  
> Wayne