Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: DMA detection
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.065410.19711@utstat.uucp>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 06:54:10 GMT
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References: <1990Aug23.224445.3691@utstat.uucp> <1990Aug24.003638.9617@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <1990Aug24.003638.9617@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>
>>Is there any software that can tell whether or not a memory card
>>is DMA compatible(i.e. will work with the DMA SCSI card)?
>
>not 100% of the time.
>
>It's easier to ask the manufacturer.

I'd rather have something that would work even most of the time than phoning
all over the continent in order to obtain an answer which may be accurate
only most of the time.

So, I would still like some utility that checks out the compatibility of 2
(preferable 3 items). These are, as you might well guess, AE's GS RAM+,
Apple's DMA SCSI card, and if possible the TWGS.

It's rather annoying to be running ok for a week and then have things start
to crash. Who knows what it could be? I don't have that many DA's. They work
fine for periods of time, the system works fine for periods of time and both
don't work fine for periods of time.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]