Re: HD Size Limit on RamFAST?

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"Terry & Utahna" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Is there a Hard drive size limit that RamFast will handle?  I have a 20MB &
>80MB drive and they work fine.  I have a 2GB Drive and it doesn't.  The
>RamFast utils can format & partition it and it comes up with 12 32MB
>partitions, but they don't appear in the list to map to slots.  The first
>partition does but prodos doesn't see it.  When I boot into GSOS, I can then
>format it as one big 2GB HFS partition and it works fine there.  I've even
>tried deleting all partitions except the first 32MB partition, but Prodos
>still won't recognize it.  Just for the heck of it, I created an 8MB
>partition but still nothing...anyone got any ideas?

Back when I was a fanatical IIGS user, I owned BOTH the
Apple High Speed SCSI card and the RamFAST card.  The
Apple HS was my original SCSI interface and the RamFAST
I got after reading all the rave user reviews of its speed.

However, when I got the RamFAST I was less impressed
with it that I thought it would be.  The speed advantage over
the Apple card in GS/OS was almost nothing.  In ProDOS
there was a huge speed increase but being a fanatical
IIGS user I was almost exclusively IIGS native in software
use.

In GS/OS, I could tell the Apple card was the better card.
The most obvious difference was when there was disk
access and a background MOD or synthLAB player NDA
was operating.  With the Apple card, the music didn't
skip a beat.  With the RamFAST, you could hear the
IIGS was being interrupted.  Obviously the RamFAST
had a higher CPU overhead than the Apple card.

I don't know how big a hard drive the RamFAST can use
but the Apple card I had could run 1GB SCSI drives with
no problems at all.