Re: SCSI Card

[big_boy_toddy@yahoo.com (Todd Nathan)]

salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter) wrote in message news:<W5FU8.6095$0c1.499547@news1.west.cox.net>...
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Why don't you put your Apple II (e?) on appleshare with the localtalk
card (network host adaptor card) and do file transfers that way?

I mean, sneaker net in the world of networks.  LOL, that is good, but
boy what a pain.

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> In article <1ferves.o2k56i1ilmsdcN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
> David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> >The original Apple SCSI card doesn't know about removable hard drives,
> >so if you swap cartridges in a Zip or SyQuest and don't reboot, it will
> >continue to use the partition map from the original cartridge,
> >potentially destroying the contents of the new cartridge.  It didn't
> >support CD-ROM drives until the revision C firmware.
> 
> I think the non-DMA Apple SCSI card I obtained recently is more than likely
> a rev. C card, but is there a way to tell for sure?  The FAQ says to check
> for particular Apple part numbers on the firmware EPROM, but mine has a
> plain white label on top (maybe it was upgraded from something older, or
> maybe the original label fell off and the plain label was stuck on to
> protect the EPROM's contents...one of the PALs is missing its label, so the
> latter is possible).
> 
> Since some (all?) of the ROM gets mapped into the computer's address space,
> can the different versions be detected in software?  Were there some
> signature bytes that can be checked?
> 
> (I'm just curious...the card will end up in my II+ with just a hard drive
> hanging off of it most of the time.  Sharing my Zip drive between my three
> Apple IIs and my Mac could be useful for moving large amounts of data back
> and forth, though.)
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