Re: Sirius RAM on ROM 3 IIgs...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

romeo@anet-dfw.com (Romeo) wrote:

>Hi! I got my Sirius RAM card with 2megs Thursday. Today I got 4 1meg simms for

>it. As I was taking the 256k simms and installing the 1meggers, I noticed the 
>card mentions a ROM3 bug that prevents the IIgs from having a RAM drive if the

>Sirius RAM card has 8megs.

Sirius!  So you finally decided the good folks at Alltech were not "crooks"
after all.  ;-)

Seriously, the folks at Alltech are good people.  Glad you decided to
order something from them.

The ROM 3 did have a problem with the RAM disk and 8MB on older
GS/OS revisions.  However, this is fixed with System 6.0.1.  Just use
System 6.0.1 and you can have 8MB and your RAM disk too.

>Is this something that will happen on *all* ROM3 IIgs'es? If so, I guess I'll 
>just keep it at 4megs, or maybe I'll pop the Sirius card in my ROM1 and load
my 
>GSRam+ with 4 megs for my ROM3?

It does not happen on ROM 3 units with System 6.0.1 installed.

>Is there some kind of work-around for this bug? I'd really like to have 8 megs

>on my ROM3.

Use System 6.0.1.

>Thanks,
>Romeo
>
>ps: I know..I know some of you say 8 megs is overkill, but I *still* want 8 
>megs on my IIgs's. If it can be done, I WANT IT! hehe

I agree completely.  That's the fun in using these old units!  ;-)  In fact,
there are a few "gee-whiz" wares that do in fact utilize 8 megs.  I want
to get 8 megs soon to use these just for the heck of it.