[Coco] Using that 16/32/64 MB RamDrive.

Paul T. Barton idezilla at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 17:19:01 EST 2004


Mark,

Wow, thanks. Maybe even faster with the 4MHZ
mod running :-).

I finally got my 64mb board working again.
(When this all started, I cut out a piece of
a PC motherboard to get the 4 simms already
soldered (to something). Hacked up those runs
and wired up what I wanted.)
I had attached that SIMM "module" to a piece
of holey board with hot-melt glue. It got
soft with the heat of 4 SIMMS and sagged
then detached breaking several wires. Upon
soldering one of them back, I "accidently"
tied an address line to one of the data lines.
That's a no-no. It now boots and will be tested
shortly (maybe Saturday). Whew! Remember, I'm
doing this with one good eye since my left
eye has a cataract, it'll be gone Monday.

Yes, I want to fill'er up and see how long
it takes.


Later,
Paul, back on track now.
---
P.S.: Say, has anyone tried to use some
"old slower" DIMMS (not SIMMS) for memory?


--- Mark Marlette <mmarlett at isd.net> wrote:

> At 08:28 PM 2/5/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>

> Paul,

>

> Interesting to compare.... The TC^3 SCSI

> Interface can do megareads in the

> 10-11 second area with a fast drive. My ~30meg

> backup up my source NitrOS-9

> disk takes about 2 hours to a ZIP100 disk. When

> doing a dsave the system is

> what takes the time, reading from source then

> saving to destination. The

> megaread is a raw read, no OS overhead. I would

> tend to think that it would

> take a couple hours to fill it. Robert's reply

> indicated that it would take

> under an hour to test it when doing multiple

> patterns when compared to the

> NoCan3. Cool stuff! GREAT JOB!!!!

>

> Mark

--snipped--


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