making most from Grand Slam 8 meg RAM

[Calde]

Hi all,
I'm an old user of the amiga, it's been about 10 years since I've played around with a 500. I picked up a 500, ecs chip set, regular agnus, trap door memory expansion, and added a grandslam scsi side car for storage and memory upgrades, added 8 megs and a 550 meg hard drive. added Amiga Explorer to a pc running xp pro a null modem cable, now thier talking, but here's the problem. when you go to copy AE on the amiga side, it just acts like its copying and nothing is moving across the cable. it copies everything prior to the program to ram but then nothing. Is thier a way I can increase my ram disk? or am I really way off base and that blinded? Anybody have any Ideas?
Thanks
Calde

[Metalguy66]

8 megs is the maximum amount of 16-bit fastram you can put on an amiga. If you get an accelerator that has 32-bit ram expansion capability, you can add alot more fastram.

As far as a 68000 based A500 goes, the only other thing you can do is max out the chip-ram to 2 megs. The easiest way to do this on a stock A500 is to get a small upgrade board that plugs in the agnus socket.. eg. DKB Megachip, Mini-Meg, etc.

I really have no idea the nature or reason for your file-transfer problems.. 8 megs of fastram should definitely be enough to run any sort of application youd ever want to run on a stock 68000.

[Calde]

Thanks for the reply, guess I'll start looking around for an upgrade to 2 megs of chip ram.
Thanks again
Calde

[rkauer]

 There is more ways to add memory to your A500, if the revision is one of the latest (6 or .

 Simple way is soldering the right RAM chips in the empty RAM spots on the motherboard, then hack a trace on the A501 connector.

 OR, if you have a later revision A2000... ;-)