Re: HELP! My 7MB RAM GS Plus Card has a mind of its own!

[pho@photon.bli.uci.edu (Peter Ho)]

In article <treiter-1802962123330001@10.0.2.15>,
Toby Reiter <treiter@comet.net> wrote:

>One question I have is this: how did you get 7 megs on your card.  The
>Plus only goes up to 6 megs unless you have a piggy back board attached.
>If you have one, perhaps the diagnostic software ignored the piggyback
>when it tested the card.  I would suggest moving the file in smaller
>chunks, since there really is no place for all the extra info to go
>between changing partitions.  There shouldn't be that many times when it
>would be impossible to split up a folder into smaller components.

You're thinking of the Applied Engineering GS Ram+ memory card that has a 
capacity of 6 MB while he's talking about a different Ram Plus card sold 
by Sequential (formerly CVTech CVRam).  This card is much smaller and uses 
higher density DRAMs.  The advantage is less power consumption and lower 
heat production.  It comes standard with 4 MB soldered to the card and has 
sockets for upgrading to a maximum capacity of 8 MB.  The card advertises 
to be DMA compatible with all 8 MB when used with a Ramfast Rev. D, but 
I've found this not to be true.  Weird things happen unless I disable 
"DMA above 4 MB" option on the Ramfast.  For example, repeatedly opening 
and closing a .GSHK archive will eventually get an "archive corrupted" 
error message from GSHK.  Nevertheless, I still think it's the best 8 MB 
capable memory card for the IIgs.