Re: Re SRAM Cards

Alessandro Valente (VALENTE@unisi.it)
Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:01:40 GMT

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>Wesley H. Jan wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 dbs@arinc.com wrote:
>>
>> > Just received mine from Reboot. Ordered last Thursday on my credit
>> > card and it showed up yesterday.
>> >
>> > Put it into the Omnigo and it formatted fine and works fine.
>> >
>> > I know this is probably in the documentation somewhere but I thought
>> > that the Omnigo would treat the card as another drive. But when I use
>> > it I have to copy stuff from the system to it. If my files grow in
>> > size how do I use them?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Dan Schwartz
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Dan
>>
>> What you need to do is to get a file management program and not
>> only copy the files to the SRAM card, but delete them from the
>> Omnigo native RAM. Be sure to copy the files to the exact same
>> directory structure as is found in native RAM.
>>
>> Doing a back-up copy to SRAM won't allow you to expand your
>> usable memory for your files.
>>
>> Wes Jan
>
>I want to comment on using the SRAM card as the primary storage medium.
>When I first got the OGO, I would copy the application data files onto
>C:, and delete them from B: ( You must remove the card, and start up the
>file manager to do this. Also, the applications must all be closed, it
>won't let you delete a file in use.) Then the apps would read and
>write the SRAM card instead of RAM. However cool this seemed, it sucked
>batteries dry real fast. I used a pair of $7 lithiums up in a week,
>with about 2 hours of use per day.
>
>I would recommend running the most commonly used apps from RAM, and
>moving less often used ones to the SRAM.
>

You're right!
I stated this in programming with IZL which was on my SRAM card.
A pair of Duracell lasts two days caused by continuing swap between the text
editor and the IZL compiler ....

Bye!