Re: AE Ramworks III

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <32455c69.253431159@news.concentric.net>,
Warren "Llama" Ernst <wernst@cris.com> wrote:

>>>We recently acquired an  AE Ramworks II card (1986 rev. F)
>>>with 512 k that is installed in the aux. slot of a platinum IIe.
>> 
>>>It appears to be necessary to format the ram every time
>>>the machine is powered on before it can be recognized. Is that true?
>>>I must be missing something, but I'm not familiar with this.
>>
>>If you want the memory to aappear as a RAMdisk, then yes, it's
>>necesary (With some programs, you also have to rename it /RAM7 or
>>something).  
>
>As an additional note, if what you want IS a ramdisk that always is
>there, even during three-fingered salutes (that is, soft reboots)you
>want a "slinky" style ram card that goes in slots 1-7 (normally 5 or
>7). Look to trade your ramworks for a RamFactor (from AE) or a genuine
>Apple //e 1M Memory Expansion card.

Don't do that, just add on a slinky. Like I was saying earlier in this thread,
it's cool to have both. You can have both with IIe on a Mac if you have
enough memory too, it's cool.

>I like my ramfactor much more than I liked my RamWorks.

I'd take a slinky if I could only have one but I like having both.
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado