Advent RAM Disk

RAM DISK boards

Mainboard version without the clock circuit Note that CPU is on a speed up board that was attached above.	Mainboard version with the clock circuit
Note that the memory board screws into the vents on the bottom of the chassis. This board has 1MB of RAM installed.

Ads for the RAM DISK

(Profiles, August 1987)

Using the Advent RAM DISK

The Advent RAMDISK required the installation of the Advent TurboROM also. These instructions are from the TurboROM manual:

5.5 RAM Disk Support

The TurboROM provides automatic support for the Advent Products RAMDisk. No additional software is required. The TurboROM automatically detects the presence of the RAMDisk and assigns it the next CP/M logical drive name after all of the floppy and hard disks have been assigned.

As an example, a Kaypro with 2 floppy drives and RAMDisk will have this drive map after a cold boot:

A: FD1 First floppy disk drive

B: FD2 Second floppy disk drive

C: RAM RAMDisk

The RAMDisk can be made the default drive (A); this requires two steps:

1. Use TURBOGEN to copy the operating system to the RAMDisk.

2. Use TURBOMAP to make the RAMDisk drive A.

A>TURBOMAP RAM A<cr>

Now, the Kaypro with 2 floppy drives and RAMDisk will have this drive map, after using TURBOGEN and TURBOMAP:

A: RAM RAMDisk

B: FD1 First floppy disk drive

C: FD2 Second floppy disk drive