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From: unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: INTERLEAVING SOFTWARE that works with DMA SCSI card
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Date: 15 Sep 90 22:53:13 GMT
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	I've had an Apple DMA SCSI Card for a few months but hadn't hooked
up a hard drive to it until tonight.. Alas, I only have the drive
for a day to play with...For probably 6 or 7 hours more now! But it might be
the one I'll get so it's sort of a learning experience.
	It's a 40 meg cartridge drive.. Actually about 42.5 total after
initialization... Well, it boots from the beep of turning on the 
system to the Finder in about 30 seconds.. And this was only one of the
two interleaves that the Finder allows... (I think I chose 2 actually)
	Do people think that I can get a faster drive (especially
booting into GS/OS!) by interleaving it at different ratios than the two
the Finder allows? (2:1 and 1:1)
	Obviously many people won't read this until after I have to give
the drive back, but I am still interested in finding this interleaving
software so that when I get my OWN drive I'll have it.. I got a few
things off of 35.1.1.43 ("UT.HARD.UTILS" and "UT.SCSI.FMT".. the names
are at least close)   Neither of them worked... Actually I must 
retract that.. One of them did -SOMETHING- and then gave a SCSI ERROR
28.. Then I was finally able to recognize the hard drive by something!
So then I formatted it with the Finder and partitioed it with the Advanced
Disk Utilities..
	Strange, I remember I was asked somewhere whether I wanted 
inerleave 1 or 2... But neither program asks me that now when I 
reformat..
	Thanks in advance...By the way, DiskTimer didn't work either.
I think that's one of the highly touted GS utilities.
	And another weird thing is that I guess I can theoretically remove
cartridges from the Finder, because when I push the 'I wanna take out the
cartridge' button on the drive, everything grays out like it should...
	And then the green light on the drive goes out... The red light
which tells when it's spinning slows down, but then flashes at a slow
constant speed.  So I guess I -can't- remove it because that can rip the heads
off the drive!  In ProDOS 8 this doesn't happen... Actually I think
it might not happen anywhere but the Finder but I haven't tested it much.
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