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Re: HD Size Limit on RamFAST?
- Subject: Re: HD Size Limit on RamFAST?
- From: "Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 21:35:51 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
news:GC3da.1362$eb1.90028@typhoon.sonic.net...
> 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?
>
>
> FWIW, I wasn't able to get a 2GB drive to work either. I switched to
> an Apple HS SCSI card, and everything worked fine.
>
> I really liked my RamFAST, but my 80MB and 100MB drives decided a few
> years back that they didn't want to spin anymore.
>
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Andy, any idea what part of the HD goes when it won't spin up anymore? Can
ity be fixed? Probably cost more than getting another one.
Glenn