Boot Speed vs High Ram Count - Quadra 950

[Zhinü]

I am pretty sure I've had it working. I think it's because of the patched AppleShare for 7.1 that LaPorta has mentioned. 7.5 does not need it, it already comes with a later version of AppleShare that will work with 10.4.11.

Cool! I assume it was released with System 7.5?

 

[Zhinü]

Oh, related to the RAM test problem, does the BMOW ROM work on the Quadra 950, and if so, is there a patched variant that retains the stock Mac icon/boot screen? While I like the little pirate mac, I prefer my systems to look mostly stock.

 

[Melkhior]

How did you put 245Mb in a IIsi? I thought 65MB was the max you could throw in one.

It is; so I cheat by using my IIsiFPGA as an extra memory controller 1 in Bank A (soldered), 4x1 in Bank B (SIMMs), 240 MiB of DDR3 through the FPGA... it's completely overkill but it's fun (except the boot time!).

 

[Zhinü]

It is; so I cheat by using my IIsiFPGA as an extra memory controller 1 in Bank A (soldered), 4x1 in Bank B (SIMMs), 240 MiB of DDR3 through the FPGA... it's completely overkill but it's fun (except the boot time!).

That’s damn cool!

 

[Addicted]

I was trying to get MR Browser working on a 16MHz LC II with 10Mbps Ethernet last night. Versions V0.19 and V0.32 both time out during sign in. Thinking that I might be contending with MR's nightly backup, I tried again this morning, no go. My ping times are good and DNS is working fine, so.. I ask: is it still supported at MacintoshRepository.org ?

 

[dv-]

40MB should be fine for most things on a 68k. Upping it to 68 or 128 would allow you to run more things at once, but how often are you going to do that? The only things that really benefit from large amounts of RAM on a 68k Mac are Photoshop or video editing software.

Take a look at MacIPRPi. Run it on a Pi and boom you've got an AppleShare server that you can connect to from your Quadra, and any modern machine. Makes it super easy to download stuff from the Garden on your modern computer and access those files on your Quadra.

MacIP.net MacIPRpi 6.02

MacIP protocol

www.macip.net

More RAM would let you stick your browser cache on a RAM disk.

That was a trick we used back in the dialup days. Not sure how much it would matter now, since network connections are often faster than SCSI-1.

 

[nathall]

I was trying to get MR Browser working on a 16MHz LC II with 10Mbps Ethernet last night. Versions V0.19 and V0.32 both time out during sign in. Thinking that I might be contending with MR's nightly backup, I tried again this morning, no go. My ping times are good and DNS is working fine, so.. I ask: is it still supported at MacintoshRepository.org ?

Most definitely. 0.32 just came out. I used it this evening on my 6300.