Anyone with Sirius RAM IIgs - please read...HELP!

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	I just received my 4MB Sirius RAM board from Alltech.  I noticed that,
in rather broken English, among all the little poetic quips here and
there printed on the red circuit board, is a statement that indicates
something to the effect that for proper operation on a ROM 3 unit, you
need to set the jumpers as though the board has a full 8MB on it--even
if it does not.  This was the default configuration of the jumpers when
I opened the box (set for 8MB even tho only 4MB is on the board).  

	When I plugged it in, the ctrl panel found 8MB in the system.  I set a
RAM disk and booted GSOS.  It did not show a RAM disk on the desktop.  I
then booted up FTA's Space Harrier Demo requiring 1.25MB RAM, more than
the default ROM 3 GS has (128K more).  It would not load--citing too
little RAM.  So I went and ran the bundled BitBuster RAM test app on the
Sirius floppy and it instantly told me bad memory.  

	SO, I looked at the sheet that came with the board that shows jumper
settings for just about all combinations of memory that the board can
handle, and it makes no mention of this odd ROM 3 workaround--going from
the sheet, you'd just set a 4MB board to the proper 4MB jumper settings.
 So I did.  And booted.  And all seems fine.  The apps requirign more
RAM work, ctrl panel sees 4MB on the card (little over 5MB total, of
course), RAM disk shows up on the desktop, and the memory test program
is still running--no instant death.  

	So--I have a ROM 3 unit that is working set in a manner contrary to
what is written, not so eloquently, on the side of the actual pcb.  Can
anyone comment on this??  Should I worry about this or that??  Maybe
this used to be an issue but is not due to new ROM or something on the
card?  

	ANY comments appreciated...  Thanks!



bp
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