Re: RamFAST stuff (was:Re: RamFAST bullcrap)

[ez050653@yogi.ucdavis.edu (Alexander Eddy)]

Matt Ackeret (unknown@apple.com) wrote:
: 	Well, others have answered about turning on the 'short timeout' option.

: 	I've got a different problem...  I have to always turn on my
: GS twice before it will even boot.  I have yet to swap back my old RamFAST
: ROMs to verify this problem, but it definitely started happening regularly 
: around the time I got my new ROMs...  It happened once in a very very rare 
: while that the system would appear 'hung' and doing a cold boot fixed it..
: now, as I just said, it happens every time.  One of the most bizarre problems
: I've seen.   Simply ^resetting puts the screen into 40 columns with half of
: the copyright message on the screen and it still being hung.

To turn on my gs I have to turn on the hard drive, let it warm up for about
3 seconds, turn it off for 1 second, turn it back on, then turn on the gs.
Simply turning on everything at once, or just letting the hard drive warm
up without flipping it off for a second before turning the gs on leads to
a hang similar to the one you describe. 

bizzare, eh?

-arekusu