Re: Apple 1024K Ram board for IIE won't auto-format

[buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

My IIe has a ZIP 8 MHz accelerator chip in it.
Is this the trouble???


RamFactor 768K, despite its bugs, DOES do its auto-format duties....


Steve Buggie





Louis Schulman (louiss@gate.net) wrote:
: In <ds63288@pro-nsdapple.cts.com>, tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Tom Kelly) writes:
: >In <5jr4s3$sl5@lynx.unm.edu> buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) writes:
: >
: >>
: >>I bought an Apple-brand 1024K RAM board for IIe, a	nd it passes all tests.
: >>
: >>But I have to format it before it will accept data as a Ram-Disk.  The 
: >>manual says that it will auto-foirmat when first accessed.
: >>
: >>Its in slot 2 in a Zip8 enhanced IIE.  Will the automatic formatting be 
: >>done if I move it to a higher slot such as slot 5, 6, or 7????
: >>
: >>
: >>Steve Buggie		buggie@unm.edu
: >>
: >>
: >
: >
: >As I recall it should come up (in ProDos) as RAMn (where n is the slot #
: >where the card is installed).
: >----
: >ProLine:  tomk@pro-nsdapple
: >Internet: tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com
: >UUCP:     crash!pro-nsdapple!tomk

: I have the same card installed in my //e with a McT SpeeDemon accelerator.  The card auto formats when the accelerator is turned OFF, but does not auto format when the accelerator is turned ON (you still can manually format it).

: This definitely is a consequence of the accelerator, either because it interferes with the cards execution of its ROM on boot and/or it causes some sort of memory conflict.  Other than turning off the accelerator, I haven't found any way around this.  B
ut having a 1 meg ram disk is really great for file transfers, archiving, de-coding, etc.

: Louis