Re: Initial CMS SCSI II Testing

Rich wrote:
Bill Garber wrote:
Here is what I've got so far. I still need to try with Focus
and my Apple SCSI card, (not HS), see what I get there.

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Superdrive - slot 7, CMS SCSI II - slot 5

Boots fine, driver allows all partitions on the 80 MB divided thusly, 32/32/16,
normal shut-down crashes to monitor

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Superdrive - slot 7, CMS SCSI II - slot 5, Microdrive - 64 MB CF card - slot 2

Boots fine, driver allows all partitions, on the 80 MB divided thusly, 32/32/16, and
both partitions on the Microdrive card, normal shut-down crashes to monitor

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Superdrive - slot 7, CMS SCSI II - slot 5, CFFA with 32 MB CF card - slot 2

Remove Microdrive, add CFFA with 32 MB CF card, boot from floppy version of
GS/OS and allow CFFA, to set up the CF card, and format. Shut down (no crash),
floppy ejects, restart. CMS and CFFA partitions are now visible.

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Superdrive - slot 7, Microdrive - slot 6 - 64 MB CF card, CMS SCSI II - slot 5,
CFFA with 32 MB CF card - slot 2

Booting from Microdrive added CMS driver, now sees both Microdrive partitions,
all 3 CMS partitions, and CFFA partition. Shut down does not crash. Will look at
jumper setting of CMS card to try to alleviate the crashing.

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Obviously, there is a slot dependency where these drives are concerned. All I can
say is, you've got to play around with it. I'll bring more tests as time permits.

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com

Thank you Bill!

Your experience gives me hope.

I will take Mike's suggestion and restrict partitions on the Ramfast, and try a couple of different slots.

Let me try again, and I'll report back if I can get any partitions from the CMS card and any from the Ramfast to appear on the desktop at the same time.

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Rich ('-')

Well, I don't know how you did it, but you did. I'm not sure what made it work, but it is working just fine, now.

I put the Ramfast card in slot 2 and the CMS card in slot 5 (no disk drives attached for this test)... set to YOUR CARD and AWAY WE GO! I got all nine CMS partitions to show up and all eight Ramfast partitions to show up.

The two hard drives are 270 MB LaCie Tsunami's. Ramfast calls it quits after partitioing into 8 32 Meg partitions; CMS makes a 4 or 5 meg partition out of what was left.

Anyway, I'm in the process of copying the 100 megs of miscellaneous stuff to the hard drive partitioned by the CMS card.

Thanks, Bill for trying the experiment. I don't know what was wrong the first time, nor what is different now, but, for the record, a Ramfast and a CMS card CAN co-exist in a IIGS.

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Rich ('-')
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