Re: A few (more) IIgs questions.

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

In article <19990819205303.06860.00001602@ng-cm1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:
> 
> Might be an overloaded power supply.  Try pulling the PCT card
> to see if it'll now work.  If so, you need a Buggie Power Supply
> (from Dr. Steve Buggie who posts to this newsgroup).
Actually, I think something was just loose. After fiddling around and
re-inserting cards, it started working. Maybe there was a dirty contact or
seomthing...
> >Cards are
> >Slot 4:PCT (inactive)
> >Slot 5:TWGS
> >Slot 7:Apple HS SCSI
> >Mem: GS-RAM III (also from dirty IIgs)
> >It may also be that it's 3/4 for the PCT/TWGS...can't remember.
> >Is there special slots that stuff needs to be in that I'm not remembering?
> 
> You should really put the TWGS into slot 3 since it is one of
> the few cards that works there.  Besides, it is closer to the
> CPU socket.
Well, not sure where it ended up, but there was only one slot it would
work in (the cable lining up with the CPU socket)...I think it was 4.

> >GS-RAM vs GS-RAM III. GS-RAM is bigger and more...special, looking...but
> >GS-RAM III has more memory in it? I can't tell for sure because it uses
> >those wierd SIP chips. Has...4mb of ram? or is that mB? But it's so
> >tiny....?
> 
> I think the GS-RAM III comes with 4MB of memory if the
> sockets are filled.
Well, the sockets are all filled...with strange upright chips I don't
really recognize.
 
> GS-RAM could go up to 6MB, if I'm correct, assuming you
> use denser chips in all of them.  However, GS-RAM came
> with a ROM chip that had to be matched to the ROM version.
> ROM 01 GS-RAMs could not work with ROM 3 units.
Hm...Well the GS-RAM I have now has always been in there and working so
that wouldn't be a problem, but...what is the increments of chips to use
to make it 4m? I think...it's 1.5 right now...
 
> GS-RAM III is a safer bet because it is newer and uses less
> power.  If you want to go 6MB, might as well get a Sirius
> card and go the whole 8MB!
It's so very small...for some reason I almost find the larger GS-RAM
seeming better, even if it isn't. Well, I have yet to see just how much
memory the card has, so I'll have to see. And besides, not really in the
mood right now to spend more money on the GS...

> >AE Vulcan 40Mb-HD-in-a-big-black-PSU-with-Controller-card. Power supply
> >worked after I replaced the fuse (there was a replacement stored right
> >above it?) although sadly I broke the little flappy door by accident
> >(thought I needed to slip something under it to lift it, it certainly
> >_looked_ like it had a little flip switch.) But, setting the slot (6, I
> >think) to My Card causes the computer to hang at boot. The drive doesn't
> >sound as if it accessing or anything either, I just hear the fan.
> 
> The drive might be dead.  I'd take the little IDE drive out,
> get rid of it, put in an SCSI drive, and connect the SCSI
> drive to your Apple High Speed SCSI card for a neat internal
> solution.
Perhaps, but my only available SCSI drive is 20mb and happily in a
20SC...hooked up to the IIgs. Maybe I'll mess with it more, dunno. Could
the card itself be dead?

Oh, and thanks for your help...
any input on that Echo commander card, anyone?