Re: Fully populating an OctoRAM card (Q)

[behrenss@hphalle6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Soenke Behrens)]

Rick Ewing (EWING@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU) wrote:

[Problems with 8MB in GS]

First: Do you have a card that does DMA? Can it handle 8MB?

: into GS's before, but I can't!  The memory is the 1 Meg x 2 style which
: means that only 2 chips are on the SIMM boards, unlike the existing
: ones that are 1 x 8's.  TYpically, I wouldn't expect this to be a problem,
: but who knows?

You really should expect that to be a problem. It caused a shitload of problems
on old PC boards, simply because those chips need a refresh that is a little
bit different, and the old chip sets didn't provide for that. Sounds familiar?
You an old Z80 person? ;-)

So, get *9 (or *8, if you must) SIMMs from a friend and try them. Could be the
problem goes away. (*2, really ... most SIMMs have 3 chips, not two. This is
really strange, a Mac person not putting SIMMs in that can also be used on PCs.
Oh well :).

Soenke

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