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From: nut@wet.UUCP (adam tilghman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Upgrading a Mega 2 to 4 megs.
Message-ID: <1457@wet.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 90 00:16:37 GMT
References: <10408@stiatl.UUCP>
Reply-To: nut@wet.UUCP (adam tilghman)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <10408@stiatl.UUCP> iam@stiatl.UUCP (Ian Mercado) writes:
>A friend of mine is trying to upgrade his Mega 2 to four megs, but is having
>problems.  Here's the deal.  He plugs in the capacitors and sockets (I think
>this was probably a solder job).  All the memory tests say that there's 4 meg
>available, but if he fills up a 3000K ramdisk, the programs past the first
>2000K won't run.  He's pretty sure that the problem is not with his MMU chip.
>
>Has anybody had any similar problems or an idea of how to resolve this one?
>If so, please e-mail a response.  He would be eternally grateful.

    This might be of interest to other net.users, so I am posting this
to the group...

    The RamDisk that your frined is using is probably an ancient one -
90% of the RamDisks from the pre-Mega days break if you try to use
them with more than 2.5Mb of memory.  Try C. Johnson's HRAMDISK,
it's a reset-proof ramdisk of the most excellent variety =:)

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