Re: 8 meg ram card.

[l.middleton3@genie.com]

spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

>In article stevep@fia.net (Steve Pedersen) writes...

>>I just got my Sirus 8 meg ram card. Sombody ask me how it feels to have
>>8 meg's of ram..<grin>

>    I've been tempted to do the same, although no one has mentioned
>whether the Sirius RAM card will successfully DMA with  5, 6, 7 or 
>8 MB of memory on the board. If you must disable DMA in order to use 
>the extra memory, it is simply not worthwhile in my opinion. Reports
>have been that the CV/Sequential board cannot do it, so what about 
>the Alltech board?

This depends on what SCSI card you have (if any)  The RamFast will do it by
itself after 4 megs.  I think with the Apple HS SCSI it must be done
manually.  This is not the fault of the ram card, its the GS' limitations.

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