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- From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 10 MB fastram onb a2000: technical question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.155030.14277@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 15:50:30 GMT
- References: <frits.721490862@galaxy> <1992Nov12.190837.20584@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Sender: news@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
- Reply-To: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
- Organization: TheNews
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Nov12.190837.20584@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val
- Kartchner) writes:
- >frits@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) writes:
- >: Recently I saw in the German Amiga magazin an add from WAW Elektronik
- >: where they advertised a chipram expander for the a500/a2000 that also
- >: had an extra 2 MB on board with which you can get a total of 10 MB Fastram.
- >...
- >: I know this is possible with a bigger processor, but if I read the add
- >: correctly they intend it for the standard a500/a2000 with a 68000 processor.
- >
- >I have an A1000 with 9.5MB of FAST RAM and .5MB of CHIP RAM. It is all
- "legal"
- >memory. It's actually possible to have 9.75MB of FAST RAM in the A1000, but
- >I don't know of anyone who actually makes a memory board that has the extra
- >256KB of memory.
- >
- > A1000 A500-A2500 A3000/A4000
- >+-----------+-----------+-----------+
- >| .5 MB | 1 MB | 2 MB | "chip" RAM
- >+-----------+ | |
- >| +-----------+ |
- >| | | |
- >+-----------+-----------+-----------+
- >| |
- >| 8 MB | AutoConfig (tm) space
- >| |
- >+-----------+-----------------------+
- >| 1.75 MB | | Memory space
- >+-----------+ |
- >| |
- >... ... I/O, chip registers, reserved
- >| |
- >| +-----------------------+
- >+-----------+ |
- >| .25 MB | .5 MB | Kickstart ROM
- >+-----------+-----------------------+
- >
- Actually, you've just hacked memory into the $c000000 auto-config space. It's
- the place where the bellt slot A500 or .5Meg Agnus A2000 memory lives, also
- called 'SLOW-FAST' memory because it uses the CHIp memory access decoder to
- address the memory. This memory is config'd at boot time , in 64 bytes chunks
- by writing a values to it and seeing if you can read it back. When you run out
- of memory it figures thta at the end of the memory.
-