Re: Sirius 8Meg for IIGS

["Rodney Hester" <rod72@optonline.net>]

"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> One thing to remember about the Sirius if you are
> using it in a ROM 3.  You still need to populate it
> with 8MB to get eight working megabytes even
> though you'd think you need only 7MB since there
> is 1MB on the motherboard.  If you don't you will
> get errors.

Just as an FYI, my experience was exactly the opposite.  On a Sirius rev 2
and a ROM 3, I got very strange errors, behavior and video artifacts until I
_removed_ one of the SIMMs, leaving the Sirius card at 7MB and a machine
with a total of 8MB (8.125?...who's counting? ;).

Rodney