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

[louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman)]

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:
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>>I bought an Apple-brand 1024K RAM board for IIe, a	nd it passes all tests.
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>>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.
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>>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
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>As I recall it should come up (in ProDos) as RAMn (where n is the slot #
>where the card is installed).
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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.  But having a 1 meg ram disk is really great for file transfers, archiving, de-coding, etc.

Louis