Re: Q: AE RamKeeper

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

Christopher G. Mason wrote:

> > I picked up an AE RamKeeper on eBay recently and have just gotten 
> > around to trying it.  Unfortunately, it does not seem to cooperate 
> > very well.  I'm using a Rom 3 GS with ZipGSX accelerator (12.5Mhz) and 
> > a RamFast Rev D controller in Slot 7.  I have been through, variously, 
> > a 4MB Chinook Ram 4000, AE GS-Ram 4MB and an older Apple GS memory 
> > card with 1MB.  With any/all of these, I hear the boot-up boink, 
> > followed by an error message from the RamKeeper firmware about "Bad RK 
> > configuration - Error 103".

> There is a chip you have to swap on the card in order for it to work on 
> a ROM 3, it is a 74F27 with a few of the pins tied together. My 
> RamKeeper came with the chip+instructions, I'll have to dig up the chip 
> scans I made for someone years ago who had the same question on the A2 
> Delphi forums. FWIW my card came with the 1.6 firmware, on a REV. C board.

Yes, please do.  It would be a good idea to fire it off to Bill Garber as 
well.  He can memorialize it on his web pages.

Steve