Re: Ramfast "TWGS" setting

[sbehrens@contech.demon.co.uk (Soenke Behrens)]

toh@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Marc Sira) wrote:

>Does anyone actually know what the "Transwarp GS" option setting on the
>Ramfast does? My understanding was that it wasn't necessary with the ZipGS.

The RF does some tricky magic with RDY so it can DMA to the entire 8MB
instead of just the lower 4MB. The Transwarp doesn't support RDY, the
Zip should.

>For that matter, what exactly does the RF driver do? I've noticed that
>partitions will appear with the "drive" icon instead of the "partition" one
>without it, but I assume it has some functional effect as well?

Yep. It replaces a "generated" (slow) driver with a true-blue GS/OS
one.

Soenke
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