Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!e2big.mko.dec.com!engage!ynotme.enet.dec.com!wallace From: wallace@ynotme.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Hardware Project: RAM disk Message-ID: <1991Jun5.161735.16007@engage.pko.dec.com> Date: 5 Jun 91 17:10:09 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 26 In article , es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Stuyvesant) writes... > I've been considering building some sort of RAM disk for my 4 Mb >1040STE, and was wondering if anyone else out there would be similarly >interested... Sounds like a fun and usefull project. I think using the DMA port is the way to go. I wonder what it would take to make it be either ACSI or SCSI depending on how you populate the board. Then you could build it to connect right to the DMA port but if you ever wanted to switch to a different computer you could just change a few components and voila. >welcome, as right now I don't have the hardware knowledge to build one >of these or the software knowledge to write the drivers. Hummm... You don't have any software/hardware design experience? Or just not in these areas? If it's the former then I agree with Mathew that you may want to start with a few (a bunch) of simpler projects. --- Ray Wallace (INTERNET,UUCP) wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (UUCP) ...!decwrl!oldtmr.enet!wallace (INTERNET) wallace%oldtmr.enet@decwrl.dec.com ---