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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: QUESTION: INSTALLING GS/OS WITH RAMKEEPER AND SIDER
Message-ID: <33919@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 89 23:15:19 GMT
References: <57269@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <57269@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>  writes:
>
>1)If my AE RamKeeper is in, with the Apple Memory Expansion Card
>attached (with 1024K), the only two icons that come up on the finder
>are the AEROM and the System.Disk.  It somehow doesn't recognize my
>hard drive as there.
>
I think I talked about this here (or somewhere else) a couple of weeks ago.
The old Sider ROMs don't initialize themselves until somebody READs from them,
and when GS/OS generates a driver, it only does a STATUS.  This quirk of not
initalizing on any call causes GS/OS to think it's offline and not to generate
a driver.  The best solution is to contact FCP and get their loaded drivers;
they'll also speed up disk access by about a factor of two.

>2)If my AERamKeeper isn't in, but the Apple Memory Expansion Card is
>(with 1024K), icons come up for the System.Disk, Hard1, Hard2 (a
>smaller partition on the same hard drive), DEV3.5 (I guess the Apple
>3.5" drive itself, even though System.Disk is already up there), and
>the AEROM icon for the RamKeeper.
>
DEV3.5 is a mystery to me.  Highlight the icon and "Get Info" from the Finder,
and see what it says it is.  3.5" disk *drive* icons do not appear on the
desktop. The presence or absence of the memory card should have nothing to do
with it; it's that someone has already read from the Sider, initalizing it.

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