Re: /RAM5 with slot 5 card?

[cdeschu@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <32np8r$e7a@meaddata.meaddata.com>,
John Townsend <johnt@meaddata.com> wrote:
>I would like to be able to use the /RAM5 RAM disk on my ROM 3 IIGS, but I
>also have a card in slot 5 (a SuperDrive controller) that I want to be able
>to use, and selecting the card from the control panel disables /RAM5.  Is
>there any way I can have both?  Is there some other way to automatically
>initialize a RAM disk when GS/OS 6.0.1 starts up?  Thanks!

	The way I got around this problem was to install the superdrive
card in slot six instead of slot five. That way, You can keep slot
five set to smartport, which eliminates the ram disk problem.
	Hint: if you have one high density drive, and one 800k drive,
leave the 800k drive plugged into the smartport, instead of plugging
it into the superdrive card. That way, you can boot from either drive,
since both drives are the first drive of each slot. If you really
wanted to, I suppose you could hook up four 3.5 drives!
	The only drawback I know of to doing it this way, is that you
can only use either the superdrive, or your 5.25 drives at any one time.
You have to change the slot setting in the control panel to switch them.
Big deal... I haven't used my 5.25 drives in probably a month. Later,

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