Re: Re SRAM Cards

Tim McIntyre (timc1958@pcix.com)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:40:58 -0500

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.