Well, I got it to work. The FAQs seriously weren't kidding when they said this thing was finicky - put the wrong terminator on the hard drive and all sorts of weirdness happens.
It's much fussier than any SCSI implementation I've seen on the Mac or PC. The drive and terminator I tried to use with the CMS card worked perfectly on both a Mac Luggable and an old test PC.
I guess if you're unlucky enough to have one of these things, the first thing you should try if serious weirdness occurs is to get rid of the SCSI terminator and/or enable termination on the drive itself.
The card has other odd pitfalls too, such as the fact that immediately after booting GS/OS after installing it for the first time, nothing appears on the desktop until you have the driver installed. But at least those are well-documented.
It's much fussier than any SCSI implementation I've seen on the Mac or PC. The drive and terminator I tried to use with the CMS card worked perfectly on both a Mac Luggable and an old test PC.
I guess if you're unlucky enough to have one of these things, the first thing you should try if serious weirdness occurs is to get rid of the SCSI terminator and/or enable termination on the drive itself.
The card has other odd pitfalls too, such as the fact that immediately after booting GS/OS after installing it for the first time, nothing appears on the desktop until you have the driver installed. But at least those are well-documented.