Re: AE Ramworks III

[apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu (ground.ecn AppleII Librarian)]

In article <ZwxO6.2632$e6.16086@news1.rdc1.tx.home.com>,
David\\Julie Wilson <cybrslider@home.com> wrote:

>    I'm having trouble setting up a ramdisk with an AE Ramworks III card. It
>has 1 meg of memory. I looked in the system utilities manual to see what it
>said. It said to test the card you could boot without a disk, hit
>control-esc, type call -151 press enter, type c40ag press enter (where 4 is
>the slot number). Then it is supposed to say how long the test will take and
>start showing rows of dots indicating it is performing the test. When I type
>c40ag, I get nothing. When I type c30ag, I get lots of beeps and the cursor
>moving down the screen. I can't format it from ProDos. I've tried slots 3
>and 4 and drives 1 and 2. It tells me no drive is present. The 80 column
>portion works fine. From what I understand, ProDos needs the 80 column card
>to work anyway. And, I can activate it from basic with PR#3. What gives?
>Thanks for the help!

David, the instructions you have are for a AE Ramfactor card, not the
Ramworks card.  The Aux memory is accessed vedry differently on the two
types of cards. The Ramfactor has a ROM that can be accessed using the
monitor.  The Ramworks has no ROM.  

As other have pointed out you need a ramdriver ( eg. Prodrive) to use the
Ramworks as a ramdrive.  Selected software can utilize the full memory of
the Ramworks.  Almost all other ProDos software will use the Ramworks as a
64k aux memory card.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)