YES! It is different in the A1200.... there is NO MOBO-Fastmem and NO Zorro III... So Blizzard with SCSI-Module or BlizzardPPC can use 256 MB or more...
I always wondered why the inferior A1200 could be loaded with more RAM than an A4k with CSPPC...
Zorro III Space YES. So think about a Mediatorboard in your A4000
Already got a Mediator.
with a 256 MB GFX-Card
I have a 32 mB Voodoo4...
and 4 ZoRAM Boards
In the Mediator?
I thought the
ZorRAM was for the Zorro Bus.
And all the ZorRAM Memory cannot be used as FastRAM - just as swap memory.
For this I have a 1tB HD at a fraction of the price of one overpriced ZorRAM board.
Furthermore, the RAM on the CSPPC is 64 But wide. I doubt the ZorRAM boards also provide 64 Bit wide RAM.
What I need is more real 64 Bit wide FastRAM on the CSPPC.
IIRC, I have something between 90 and 100 mB FAST available after booting.
If I want to start NetSurf for example, I already need 32 mB just for that.
Then roughly half of the RAM on the CSPPC is already consumed and there's not much left for serious multitasking with e.g. ArtEffect and/or Wildfire7 PPC...
That is more than 1 GB of Adressspace.... build a ZoRAM++ with 1 GB for example....
What for (see my arguments above)?
:confused:
Maybe with a Hack something like the 64MB MOBO-Fastram-Hack.... but I have no Idea if this works.....
The aktual update for OS4.1 FE includes a new Feature that you could use Zorro 3 RAM as RAM instead of SWAP-Space.
Now this sounds interesting. Can you come up with a link to these news to learn more about it?
But nevertheless - as my main system is OS 3.9/WarpOS 16.1 (I just have an 'experimental' installation of OS 4.0 classic, as it doesn't support my hardware config sufficiently), I would need an OS 3.9 version of this feature and it would have to support my 1 tB harddrive at the UW-SCSI of the CSPPC besides the ZorRAM boards.
I think they managed it to "swap" parts of the Cyberstorm Memory with Z3-Ram. Let us call it an intelligent "copy" Routine.....so there will be more RAM available, wenn the update comes out.
I'm wondering how the Performance is, given the fact that CSPPC's RAM is 64 Bit wide and ZorRAM's is just 32 Bit. I might get better transfer rates with a real harddrive on the UW-SCSI of the CSPPC...