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From: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
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Subject: Re: DMA, Octoram
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Date: 21 Sep 90 23:29:13 GMT
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yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Yong Su Kim) writes:

>Has anyone tried using the Octoram with the Ramfast SCSI or the DMA
>SCSI card?

Yes, It works fine as long as you don't put more than 4 simms on it.
That means you can run it with up to 1 meg of 256K simms or 4 meg of 1
meg simms.

>I have an Octoram with 2 1Meg SIMMS, and I am thinking about getting a
>RAMfast SCSI card. If there are any problems with such a setup, I
>would like to know about it...

This setup is OK.  The RamFast is awesome, disk writes are almost
instantaneous, the cursor returns before the hard drive even comes on.

I've been able to boot a minimal system 5.02 in about 10 seconds.

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu

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