SGC RAMDISK

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retro_collector
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SGC RAMDISK

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Are there RAMDISK drivers for the Super Gold Card?

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Bill


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Re: SGC RAMDISK

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Hi Bill!

Yes, the SGC comes with a modern RAM disk driver in the on-board ROM.


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Re: SGC RAMDISK

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Hi Martyn!

Are the drivers installed automatically? How do I access the RAM drive?

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The drivers are an integral part of the Trump Card, Gold Card and Super Gold Card.

These are dynamic ram disks - so not a fixed size - they will expand to allow your biggest files (assuming there is enough memory)

You simply use RAM instead of MDV or FLP, so DIR ram1_ will give a directory. LOAD ram8_test_bas will load test_bas from ram disk 8

One of the most used commands I use is FORMAT ram1_mdv2
this makes a sector by sector image of mdv2_ within ram1_ .

It is very quick and any damaged files have an asterisk appended to the filename.


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Thanks Rich!

I will try it when my SGC arrives. I think my QL will arrive tomorrow!


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retro_collector wrote:Thanks Rich!

I will try it when my SGC arrives. I think my QL will arrive tomorrow!
Hi Bill,

you want you look at Dilwyn's web site and review the documentation for the Super Gold card.

I did not get any documentation with my Tetroid Super Gold Card. But the old Miracle Systems :

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/manuals/sgc.zip

Please refer to the Trump Card manual for details of the Ram Disk uasage:

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/manuals/Mi ... 20Card.pdf

The Ram Disk is set up as dynamic, as Rich said, use the RAM device to access the ram disk, i.e. DIR RAM1_

Note there is not a parallel port on the Tetroid SGC.

You also need to look at the Toolkit 2 commands added with the SGC:

http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/ebooks/tk2_a5.pdf


Regards,

Derek
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