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From: kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: RAMFast problems!!!
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Date: 12 Nov 90 03:08:33 GMT
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OK, everyone else is talking about how great their RAMFast is, but I've
got a serious problem:

It doesn't work with AppleTalk!!!

I just got the card Wednesday (didn't install it until last night,
though), and the ROM says V1.1 on it--are these the new ROMs?  Does
anyone know if the old ROMs work with AppleTalk?  Since I have no need
for support of removable devices, I can swap my new ROMs for someone's
old ones if they work with Appletalk.

How do I know it's Appletalk?  Everything works great form P8.  No
problems.  I try to boot GSOS, and about half way through the boot (just
about the time it would be loading the Laserwriter drivers), it crashes
into the monitor with an infinite number of BRKs/COPs/etc.  (as in, it
continues to beep...like interrupts are causing the problem.  Hint
hint).  If I simply go to the control panel (thank god for Ctrl-Ap-ESC),
set slot 7 to 'my card' and reboot, everything works great (except that
I can't print from AWGS...).

No setting of DIP switches seems to help (DMA on/off, termination
on/off, etc.)

Printing to a Laserwriter is much more important to me than fast drive
access (especially since I have no easy method of backing up 20 megs
worth of data to reformat the drive from 8:1 to 1:1 without using
Appleshare...).  I plan to call CVT on Tuesday (when I have a chance)
unless someone else can make a suggestion.

However, I really like how RAMFast works, even at such a horrible
interleave.  Boot time cut in half.  It's really nice, except for this
one problem...sigh.

			Kent Dickey
kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU