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- From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Even MORE TT030 help
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.102128.28881@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 10:21:28 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.053336.20699@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep11.053336.20699@u.washington.edu> dud@hardy.u.washington.edu (Daniel Aylward) writes:
- >Ok, I took apart my TT for the first time. I now have a few more
- >questions... How do I know what RAM is what? Right now I can only access
- >the 4 megs of ST RAM. There are 4 megs of RAM on the motherboard, and
- >also 4 megs on a daughter board directly under the HD. There is an empty
- >socket that I've been told is for fast ram in front of the power supply.
-
- It's actually 2MB on the motherboard and 2MB on the daughter. And the socket
- at the left front it indeed for the TT-RAM board.
-
- >Since there are 8 megs in the machine, and only 4 seem to be accessable,
- >I'd assume something is wrong. Should I unplug the board under the HD &
- >plug it in in front of the HD? I don't think it'll fit in that small
- >space. Are there DIP switch settings that make the TT RAM accessable?
- >Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance....
-
- Nothing is wrong, and no twiddling of the DIP switches will add extra RAM to
- your machine :-). From what I've heard, only DIP switch 7 is used, and that
- sets whether or not the option for High Density floppies is available from
- the format dialog box.
-
- >
- >Dan Aylward
- >dud@u.washington.edu
-
- Steve
-
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