Re: ROM 3 GS - can you use old memory board?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:
> 
> >       I see.  I wonder if I could have hurt my ROM 3 GS somehow by putting in
> >the AST board which likely needs a hardware mod?  Don't see any signs
> >now, and I hope it stays that way!
> 
> The AST card won't hurt the ROM 3.  Ron is talking about the
> AE RamPlus cards.  Those require one EPROM for ROM 3
> units and another for ROM 01 units.  If you put a ROM 01
> card into a ROM 3, it "blinds" the ROM 3 to its own 1MB and
> makes it think it has only the memory of the card.
> 
> As far as I know, the AST RamStack does not have this
> problem.  Even if it did, pulling the card will solve the problem.
> 

	I see.  Apparently the AST RamStack Plus does have this problem.  I
have "ASSY.REV.X9" for what it's worth (S/N: 2974).  I guess it could
have gotten zapped by handling static over the years.  I've never used
this actual board in a GS before.  I got this free with those
platinum-colored Bose RoomMate speakers long ago.  I was using a
RamStack Plus in my GS at the time -- had the 128K of EEPROM's on there
that I was using as a drive on S2,D2 or something.  Nifty.  For some
reason, I was quite excited about this card in particular, back then.

> >       Unfort. I've got 1MB on the Rom 3 unit -- lots of stuff wants 1.25MB
> >min -- will have to add more.  One of those 2MB expansion boards (2MB
> >populated, rather) from Alltech would work with a ROM 3 GS, right?
> 
> Yes it will.  I have one in my ROM 3, populated to 8MB.
> It works like a charm.
> 

	I think I will buy the 2MB version and add to it later.  I think I'd be
ok for the moment with 3MB in the GS.  I still, in a massive way, need a
RamFast board so I can get that Zip drive on the GS and use it for
floppy image transfers between the GS and my G3.  



bp
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