Re: RamFast w/NCS ProDrive

[wrh3c@watt.seas.Virginia.EDU (William R. Hall)]

ballweb@CSOS.ORST.EDU  writes:
> 	I am in need of help to set up the proper configuration for a RamFast
> and an NCS ProDrive combination.  Previously i posted about having problems
> with the NCS ProDrive and the 3.5" Drive, which was fixed by getting rid of the
> funky smartport power cord for an external one.  The external power supply

Good move!  Mine gave me trouble with the smartport power cable too.

> [stuff deleted]
> 
> 	The problem is that the drive dosent seem to be reading right at all,
> some examples of errors are as follows:  copying from one partition to another
> will yield all sorts of I/O errors such as "Invalid parameter count",
> "Invalid pathname syntax", or my favorite "Insert NCS.Boot" <the hard drive
> partition, which is not removable>
>  
> 	Other errors that have occured are random crashes during reads/writes
> especially when in orca/c, such as "Loader: not found", and system wide freezes
> are also common.
>  
> 	Question: Does ANYONE know what is going on here???  And if so could
> you PLEASE let me know, either via e-mail or a post here???
>  
> Any help is appreciated, thanks.
>  
> - Brian
>   ballweb@kira.csos.orst.edu
>  
> 
  You wouldn't happen to be using an accelerator, would you?  I have a ZipGS
9/32, and I used to have lots of trouble with my RamFAST and NCS Pro 52.  I
found that turning on the Transwarp option in the RamFAST configuration got
rid of most of the random hanging and crashing problems.  For an even better
fix, I turned off the DMA.  My 4 Meg memory card (S&S Ram card) is supposed
to be DMA compatible, but sometimes I wonder.  I can't remember at the moment
whether I ever turned DMA back on (I'm on my other GS right now), but I
didn't notice too much of a speed loss, especially since it's still waaay
faster than the Apple DMA SCSI, my former SCSI card.
  Hope this helps!
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William R. Hall  |  wrh3c@Virginia.edu