Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!wrkof!spock From: spock@wrkof.incom.de (Martin Georg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: RAMFast SCSI Summary: Recormomendation for the RAMFast SCSI Keywords: RAMFAst SCSI Message-ID: <1990Oct17.074514.13624@wrkof.incom.de> Date: 17 Oct 90 07:45:14 GMT References: Organization: Ing. Buero Winfried Koenig, Offenbach Lines: 34 In article jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes: > > >If this has already been reviewed, please forgive. > >I just perused this month's Incider when I saw the RAMfast as the >Editor's choice. It looks like a Apple High Speed SCSI only with 128K or >more of cache on board. > >This looks exciting. Does anyone have one of these things? Does it work >with e Transwarp? Reviews, please! > > >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >|Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | >|jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| >|a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software| opinions, alone. | >|staff/student@Carnegie Mellon U.| | Ya Gotta Love It. | >----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a RAMFast and the board works wery well with all my other Hard- and Software. But be aware the the Apple High-speed DMA SCSI card does NOT have anything like a cache or a special processor. In fact, the RAMFast is about three times faster that Apples card (I had a Apple-card for testing here). It also support up to eight partitions accessible from ProDOS 8, locking and removing partitions (from the drive list) as well as a very gfood low-level partitioning and formatting software. It also waits for your harddisk to come up after power-on. GS/OS with some CDevs, DA's and Setups boots in 12 secondsnd it works well with a Transwarp. And if you have a PC Transporter, you will be really looking about the HD-Speed under MS-DOS. Martin Georg, Frankfurt, Germany ----> Apple II froever! <----