Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!mcnc!ncsuvx!news From: rnf@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: APPLE HIGH SPEED SCSI Vs Ramfast Message-ID: <1990Oct24.203500.13274@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 24 Oct 90 20:35:00 GMT References: <9010230531.AA12688@apple.com> <8101@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <863@mtune.ATT.COM> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 32 rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) writes: >In article <8101@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: >> At least in the last info I heard, the RAMFAST only worked with >>plain old hard drives.. DIDN'T work with removable SCSI media, whether it >>be floptical drives, Syquest based drives, or CD Roms.. This is not correct. The RamFast works fine with Syquest drives, I use one every day. What it does NOT do is allow you to change cartridges without rebooting. There is supposedly a ROM upgrade in the works to allow this. If you want to use the drive like a giant floppy then you can't with the RamFast, yet anyway. If you just want to be able to use it like a regular drive that you can use to boot a particular cartridge or for backing up another hard drive, it works fine. Apple's SCSI drivers allow the use of the drive as a true removable, so cards that work with Apple's drivers will do that with the Syquest. The RamFast has its own driver and it is not currently written to use the mounting/dismounting abilities of the Syquest. >Could someone confirm this? I was planning on getting a Syquest for my GS, >and wanted to use the RAMfast card rather that the HS SCSI. If the above >is true, though, I'll be stuck with the Apple board. > Bob Halloran >========================================================================= >Internet: rkh@mtune.dptg.att.com UUCP: att!mtune!rkh >Disclaimer: If you think AT&T would have ME as a spokesman, you're crazed. >"Apple II Forever"? Looks like Forever = 13 years, 6 months > (4/15/77 - 10/15/90) >=========================================================================