Sirius RAM GS & ROM quirks

[wbaguhn@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

Interesting situation.  I have my beautiful Sirius RAM IIgs, and a bunch
of other cards in my system (RAMFast C, Sonic Blaster, Zip GSX, Parallel).
I recently changed the motherboard from a ROM 01 to a ROM 3.

I called up Alltech, because the Sirius's docs are a little vague.  I asked
them what I needed to do to the Sirius to get it working with the Rom 3.

They claimed that all that needed to happen was moving the SIMM from
bank 1 to bank 5 (tried it.  still only had 4 meg).

I had already done that, but here's the interesting part... when I switched
motherboards, anything I tried to launch from the finder would crash.

ANYTHING.

So, I switched the SIMM back into bank 1 from bank 5, and I'm typing away
merrily.

Just so you all know... the Sirius RAM is a nice card, but it's a little
quirky.

BTW: anyone know what the "configuration block" does?  I'm convinced it does
something, but Alltech won't tell me.  Anyone who bought a Rom 3 Sirius
RAM care to describe what their "Configuration Block" looks like?  mine
looks like two wires, intact.  I have a feeling that one or both are clipped
on a Rom 3 configuration, or perhaps on a higher RAM configuration?
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                                      --- SPQR (wbaguhn@nyx.net)