Re: Any RamKeeper owners out there?

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

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:7iXNc.132056$eO.119965@edtnps89...
> Tim Haynes wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Just the ROMdisk contents are preserved when you power down the IIgs so
> it's basically just a device you boot from.
>
> SCSI isn't just SCSI. There's faster and slower drives and Faster and
> slower SCSI cards.
> I timed a IIgs without an accelerator using a Quantum ProDrive 240S and
> doing a shift boot
>
> Rev C SCSI card 33 seconds
>
> ramfast SCSI  20 seconds
>
> CFFA card with campact flash 24 seconds
>
> RamKeeper ROMdisk 28 seconds.

Wow - that is pretty stunning. I would have thought for sure that the
RamKeeper would have booted a lot faster.  I guess the I/O for moving
hardware isn't necessarily the bottleneck in the older systems, eh?  I
wonder if having a TWGS would make the ROMdisk boot faster...

Thanks
Tim