Re: Any RamKeeper owners out there?

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:c5INc.73057$iw3.16808@clgrps13...
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
> > When people booted their IIgs's from floppies, the RamKeeper was a
> > godsend.  But now that there are fast hard disk controllers, there is
> > not much of an advantage.
> >
> > And the part about causing fires didn't help any...  ;-)
>
> I mostly used them to combine two RAM cards. I did try using it as a
> battery backed RAMdisk but didn't trust it enough to leave it alone.
> Was interesting to try it out with the different RAM cards.

Wayne,

How fast would you say booting from the RamKeeper is, versus booting from a
SCSI hard disk?

Is it just the ROM disk contents that are preserved when you power off, or
is all of the RAM preservered, too?

Thanks
Tim