Re: Zip GS questions

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes...

>In article Barry.Rees@prodigy.net writes...
>>
>>When I get back to testing, I'll keep in mind the 16k cache that you
>>suggested. I'd like to get the 16 MHz setup working because it was
>>INCREDIBLY fast. Question: With the (32k x 8) chips installed, can I
>>still configure the DIP switches to only use 16k of the 64k installed
>>cache?
> 
>    From my experience, no. You can only tell the Zip to ignore the
>second set of chips (64K/32K or 16K/8K). I may be wrong, but this 
>would seem logical and from my own testing, the Zip becomes totally
>unusable because it's expecting a different density chip. It's not
>a matter of stability, it just won't work period.

    Once again, I was wrong, and I appologize if I confused anyone.
I still don't quite understand why lowering the cache size on my
15/64 to 8K or 16K causes it to become unstable and do other strange
things, but at least it's now running smoothly as a 15/64. :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca