Re: AE Ramworks III

["David\\Julie Wilson" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Scott,

    Yes, it is a RamWorks card. Says so right on the card. It will only fit
in the auxiliary slot. It will not fit in any other slot. ProDos says
"Invalid Slot/Drive There is no storage device at the specified
location...." when I try to format it.

    When I try to catalog the disk using the ProDos volume name (I tried
/RAM, /RAM1, /RAM2, etc.) ProDos says "Volume Not Found".

    Thanks!

David


"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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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.)
>
>   _/_
>  / v \
> (IIGS(  Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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>
> >Thanks for the help!
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >
>
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