Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!mattd 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> Distribution: usa Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 39 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. >-=- >stern@cis.ohio-state.edu: Internet | "Eppur si muove." | >osu-cis!tut!stern : UUCP | -Galileo |:->{===# >72647,1527 : CompuServe | ` / ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that AppleLink PE: Matt DTS GEnie: AIIDTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its CompuServe: 76703,3030 | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, Usenet: mattd@apple.com | have any opinion on any subject." UUCP: (other stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------