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From: spock@wrkof.incom.de (Martin Georg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Incompatibility between Sider & 5.03
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.084839.27665@wrkof.incom.de>
Date: 14 Nov 90 08:48:39 GMT
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In article <1990Nov11.184951.29795@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>In article <7103@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600prao@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Parik Rao) writes:
>>
>> For those who own Sider drives, you've got a slight
>>problem.  They are incompatible with 5.03.  The
>>problem occurs when you press volume in the standard
>>files dialog.  FCP hasn't said much about fixing the
>>problem (they've known about it for a while).  One
>>solution is to buy a RAMFast SCSI card.
>
>Huh? The Sider I have isn't SCSI-- it has a Xebec SASI controller inside--
>SASI was the predecessor to SCSI, but I don't recall them being completely
>compatible?  Am I misinformed?
>--
>Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
>     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.
Yes and No!
The RAMFast basically is a SCSI card, but it can also handloke the older 
SASI Harddrives like the Siders. So, The RAMFast is the best buy.

Martin Georg
Frankfurt, Germany
----> Apple II forever! <----