Re: Update on my PB2400c CompactFlash boot drive adventure (was Hard drive spin-up problem)

2005-12-12 Thread Howard R. Katz
The only reason to not use the CF as VM is that compactflash does have a limited life for writing to the media - it's in the millions of writes so it may not be an immediate problem. You can READ from a CF unlimited numbers of times tho. (There's a white paper on this on sandisk's website

PC cards for Wallstreet

2005-12-12 Thread shawn
I am in need of getting a usb/firewire pc card for my wallstreet 233 so I can print to my printer, I am currently running 9.2 and may eventually upgrade to 10.1 or 10.2 and would like to purchase a card that I can use in 9.2 or X. Does anyone have any suggestions. Also has anyone had luck

Re: PC cards for Wallstreet

2005-12-12 Thread GalBros
In a message dated 12/12/05 9:55:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also has anyone had luck putting in 256m - 512m of ram in the wallstreet without doing a sonnet upgrade or other motherboard upgrade? 256mb is easy; it just requires at least one of the 128mb so-dimm to be the standard size to

Re: Update on my PB2400c CompactFlash boot drive adventure (was Hard drive spin-

2005-12-12 Thread gfdaught
Howard, Greetings. Sure, I'd be interested in this URL. Incidentally, if I have enough RAM for routine use, do I even need to turn on Virtual Memory at all? Alternatively, if I reassign VM to the hard drive, what effect will this have on hard drive spin-up? Gary Re: Update on my PB2400c

Re: Update on my PB2400c CompactFlash boot drive adventure (was Hard drive spin-

2005-12-12 Thread Howard R. Katz
Using VM is up to the user--I never have used it, but I've been lucky enough to have had enough memory for my applications. I suppose had I had my 520c for example, with only the original 8mg vs the 36 that I ended up with (36? I think that was the amount), I would have turned VM on. A

Re: Update on my PB2400c CompactFlash boot drive adventure (was Hard drive

2005-12-12 Thread gfdaught
Howard, Greetings again. OK, I decided to turn off Virtual Memory. I notice the System and apps are drawing more resources (particularly the System which has jumped by almost 10MB with most of my apps open). I've regained some RAM using Audion instead of iTunes (as was suggested). But I'm now

Re: Update on my PB2400c CompactFlash boot drive adventure (was Hard drive

2005-12-12 Thread Howard R. Katz
You could always run the programs and see how much memory each is using. I think it's a case of YMMV. (The heavy users here can advise you better than I can--I ask for more help here than I've given. :) ) On my 5300 and 520c I've been a big fan of RamDoubler--it does of good job of using