Re: RamFAST stuff (was:Re: RamFAST bullcrap)

[gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (Greg R. Achenbach)]

unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
> 	I've got a different problem...  I have to always turn on my
> GS twice before it will even boot.  I have yet to swap back my old RamFAST
> ROMs to verify this problem, but it definitely started happening regularly 
> around the time I got my new ROMs...  It happened once in a very very rare 
> while that the system would appear 'hung' and doing a cold boot fixed it..
> now, as I just said, it happens every time.  One of the most bizarre problems
> I've seen.   Simply ^resetting puts the screen into 40 columns with half of
> the copyright message on the screen and it still being hung.

Wow!  This has been happening to me, too.  It is not a "feature", but 
appears to be a defect.  I've sent 4 cards back to Soquential with this 
problem.  Fortunately, when I bought the RamFast, I got two of them.  One 
has worked flawlessly since day one.  On the other one (and the 
replacements) I have had the failure to boot problem.  Once I had to turn 
the computer off and on 6 times in order to get a boot.  Sometimes it 
gets to the boot screen and than hangs with the thermometer only halfway 
filled.  Another persistent symptom is hanging when I get into 
RAMFAST.SYSTEM and try to access the SCSI utilities.  

I would like to add that Sequential and Jawaid have been very helpful, 
and since I have one that works, I know what a great product it is.  I 
just want to get another one that works properly.  I'm struggling along 
with an old Rev.C SCSI card in the office computer while I wait for my 
fifth replacement to come (fingers crossed).

Is anybody else having the same symptoms?


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Greg Achenbach             gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (soon to be ctp.org)
Los Angeles County Outdoor Science School

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