Re: Sirius RAM GS & ROM quirks

[John Le Febvre <John@klatch.demon.co.uk>]

In article: <4rss02$ol0@nyx10.cs.du.edu>  wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn) 
writes:
> 
> Well, I talked to the guy at Alltech who designed the board today ("Tony").
> He said that the Configuration Block was useless, as the PAL had a new
> design and no longer needed a configuration block.
> 
> Also, I described my problems with the Sirius (it's only recognizing a total
> of four megs system ram in either a rom 1 or rom 3 configuration, even though
> there are six megs installed), and they're sending me a new one.  I'm happy
> with the arrangement.  :)

Ah!  This may explain something.  I had two spare 1meg SIMMs from a PC upgrade
so thought about putting in my IIgs only they weren't recognised.  If I took
out the 4 megs and put the two megs in and they were recognised so I thought
that maybe the Sirius didn't like mixing parity and non-parity SIMMs.

Maybe I should return it.  Do you have any idea about which model numbers
of Sirius are affected, or is it all the ones which use the config block?

Cheers
-- 
John.
john@klatch.demon.co.uk