Re: Ramfast problem fixed; but ...

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Dan Masterson wrote:
> 
> Thanks LJSilicon for the help fixing the RF problem.  It was a simple
> solution, but not having the RF manual...well....
>

     Not having the manual can make things kind of rough.

     LJSilicon's fix is good to know about. Even since getting our
RamFAST, I've wondered about Ramfast.System's Long vs. Short Timeout
setup option.

Perhaps LJSilicon knows the answer:

Supposedly, the Long/Short Option in Ramfast.System lets you chose
whether or not your RamFAST interface will wait 45 seconds before
checking for devices on the SCSI chain. This is supposed to give your
hard drive time to spin-up and be ready when RamFAST checks.

Fine; but, where is this Long/Short Timeout Option setting saved?
According to the manual, settings are saved in block 0 on a hard disk,
Zip Drive, or some other write-able device on the card's SCSI chain.

If the Long/Short Option setting is saved to your hard disk, then what
good is it? Upon power-up, RamFAST will not know its supposed to wait
until it reads the setting from the device it's supposed to be waiting
for because it cannot reliably read from the device unless it waits!

Does the RamFAST have an on-card EEPROM it writes to? Or, does
Ramfast.system treat Long/Short Timeout as a special case and save the
setting to GS BatRAM?
 

Rubywand