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From: ericm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Mulholland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AE GSRAM and RAMFast SCSI
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Date: 2 Oct 90 17:32:35 GMT
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In article <37823@ut-emx.uucp> ifar355@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:
>I'm thinking of getting a RAMFast SCSI card pretty soon, but I've heard
>that the older GSRAM cards aren't totally DMA compatible. How can I tell if
>I have one of the older GSRAMs? I bought it around late '88 (I think).

The gs-ram card has a revision letter on it.  I don't know which letter
was the first to support dma.

>Also, will Adv. Disk Utils on the System.Tools disk partition a drive hooked
>up to a RAMFast? Or do I have to use another prog?

The RamFast has a built-in rom disk that appears as another scsi device.
This rom disk contains the program to format and partition the hard drives.
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