Manuel d'utilisation / d'entretien du produit RAMPAK 4GS du fabricant Orange Micro
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RamPak 4GS OPERATOR’S MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 What’s in the Box 2 Two Levels of RamPak Operation 2 INSTALLATION OF THE RAMPAK INTO THE APPLE IIGS 3 Installation Test 5 INSTALLING R.
INTRODUCTION Congratulations! You have purchased one of the most powerful memory sub - systems ever developed for a microcomputer. With a full half-megabyte of memory standard, you will immediately expand your Apple IIGS to three-quarters of a megabyte -- more fully addressable memory than ever before available on an Apple II.
automatically when the RamPak 4GS is properly installed in your Apple. Your computer knows to look for available memory every time you turn it on, so the RamPak's expansion benefits are immediately realized.
3. Touch the power supply of the Apple IIGS before handling the RamPak 4GS. Static charges may damage your RAM or other delicate electronic parts. 4. If you have purchased additional RAM for the Ram Pak, this must be installed before the RamPak is installed in your Apple.
By following this procedure you will have properly installed the RamPak 4GS, and any software designed to use higher RAM levels will now automatically take advantage of your powerful new system. Installation Test To be sure the RamPak 4GS is functioning properly, run the following short test: 1.
development which require large amounts of memory to load and run. For these situations, the RamPak 4GS provides expansion capability to 4Mb. Your RamPak 4GS has been specifically designed for use with 256K x 4 DRAM chips.
ending with sockets 3 & 4, all of which are located in row A. You may then continue to BANK 1, row B, where the first chips will be installed in sockets 1 and 2. This right- to-left, top-to-bottom format is consistent throughout the expansion of the RamPak 4GS.
RAMPAK MEMORY MANAGEMENT UTILITIES OVERVIEW Included with the RamPak 4GS is a disk labeled Memory Management Utilities. This powerful software package will enable you to substantially increase your systems speed and performance through the use of disk caching and Dynamic or Manual Cache Allocation.
VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: The RamPak Utilities work with ProDOS 16 or ProDOS 8, but they will not remain resident when your Apple IIGS switches between ProDOS 16 and ProDOS 8. Separate RamPak utilities for both ProDOS 16 and ProDOS 8 are provided on the Utilities disk.
Installing the Utilities on a ProDOS 8 System Disk: To install the RamPak Utilities on any ProDOS 8 System Disk, use the Apple IIGS Desktop or your own copy utility to copy the file “ Cache.System ’ from the RamPak Utilities disk as the first ‘system” file on your ProDOS 8 system disk.
menu, but the disk containing the RamPak Utilities file must be in the drive in order to change settings. How to Use Pull-down Menus When you first enter the menu screen, you will see a bar across the top of the screen with several titles. These are your menu titles.
The Apple Menu The Apple menu contains only two selections: About This Disk’ and ‘Troubleshooting.’ Both of these are informational screens, requiring no other user interaction than clicking on the Close box when viewing is complete. Where applicable, use the scroll bars to advance to the next screen.
The Concept of Statistics,” on page 16 of this Operator’s Manual. Undo All Changes Removes all settings made since last “DONE-- INSTALL CHANGES. Returns you to the Desk Accessory menu. Done--Install Changes Exits from the RamPak utilities and returns to ProDOS, while installing all of your memory settings in your IIGS RAM.
Extended Memory Test Selects a complete RAM test, including READ- WRITE test, test for proper RAM refresh, and a check for addressing errors. Bad chips are indicated by socket and row location (i.e. U4,D). In addition, all memory errors are reported by memory location.
spooling or other memory functions. Other times, no effort is even put forth to understand caching, since the idea of altering the way your system handles memory really doesn’t sound too “safe” anyway. Once understood and used effectively, disk caching will become a very powerful system enhancement for virtually any user.
The Concept of Statistics The RamPak 4GS Statistics Utility offers the user the ability to view the efficiency of the current cache set-up at any time.
the ON/OFF selection ,indicating whether or not a cache will be active on the specified drive. Again, pointing and clicking with the mouse will make the selection. After ON is selected, a cursor will appear in the DIS K M AXIM U M CA C H E S I Z E box at the bottom of the cache section of the screen .
application. Dynamic Cache Allocation is recommended for most caching purposes. All that you manually need to allocate is the amount of RAM you wish to set aside for total system caching. A dialog box will appear asking for the number of blocks you wish to set aside as a total buffer pool size.
APPENDIX A: TROUBLESHOOTING If you have just completed installation of the RamPak 4GS and are experiencing problems, turn off all system power and remove the board from the Apple. Restart the Apple and repeat whatever steps led to the initial failure to verify that the problem is in the RamPak card.
APPENDIX B: RAMPAK 4GS POWER CONSUMPTION Independent of memory configuration: Power Supply Voltage Current 5 Volts 500 MA (Maximum) APPENDIX C: BITS AND BYTES This is not intended to provide anything more than a superficial understanding of bits and bytes and how they relate to RAM chips and memory expansion.
APPENDIX D: SPECIFICATIONS OF RAM EXPANSION CHIPS The technical specifications of the RAM chips used to expand the memory of the RamPak are as follows: 256K x 4, one megabit, 150 nanosecond (or faster), “CAS before RAS” refresh mode DRAMS. APPENDIX E: GLOSSARY BANK: 64K Bytes of memory.
INTER-BANK ADDRESSING: Memory addressing that crosses a 64K byte boundary. INTRA - SEGMENT ADDRESSING: Memory addressing that is within a 256K byte segment. MANUAL CACHE ALLOCATION: Allows the user to specify exactly how much memory is used for each active drive used for caching.
LIMITED WARRANTY Every RamPak board and disk is fully tested and checked for quality prior to shipment. The RamPak board is warranted to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one (1) year from the date of purchase.
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