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How can my ROM 3 GS + 8MB Sirius card do large file copying?

April 26, 2017card file GS large ROM SIRIUS

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How can my ROM 3 GS + 8MB Sirius card do large file copying?

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An error in the Sirius manual (a 1 page paper) recommends that ROM 3 users remove one of the SIMM modules since the ROM 3 has 1MB and 8MB is max. When I did this, the GS reported 8MB, but copying large groups of files or large files (>800k) failed. When I put the missing SIMM back, the GS still reported 8MB, but the file copy problems vanished. It appears that the Sirius needs eight 1MB SIMM modules for 8MB even on a ROM 3. —————————- From: Rodney Hester Turns out I had the opposite experience. In my system (ROM 3 with 8MB Sirius v2.0 and Focus drive) the large file corruption problems, “ghosties” (weird video artifacts), random system crashes (especially when Balloon 2.0 was active), etc. _all_ went away when I _removed_ “SIMM 8”. (There is some numbering on the back of the Sirius.) ____________________________ From: Supertimer 022- I just received my Sirius RAM card and populated it with 8 1MB SIMMS.