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Re: AE Ramworks III

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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).

That can't be right, as there's only one slot (the auxiliary slot) where a
RamWorks will fit.  Are you sure your card is a RamWorks and not a RamFactor
(which was an Apple II Memory Expansion Card workalike for the regular
slots)?

>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?

If it's a RamWorks, you should get the usual ~60K /RAM at slot 3, drive 2
that you always get on a 128K+ IIe.  Anything more would need to be enabled
by the software that came with the card.  The RamWorks series of cards is
designed to replace whatever 80-column card you originally used.  (In a IIe,
an "80-column card" is just extra memory to enable use of the built-in
hardware's 80-column capability, just as a "sound card" on a IIGS is only a
stereo mux/demux (and maybe an amp and/or preamp) to extend the capabilities
of the built-in audio hardware.)

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(IIGS(  Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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>Thanks for the help!
>
>David
>
>
>


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