What to do with all this memory?

[neilo40]

I'd seen a few people mention it, but boy was the TF536 a joy to build. One evening's work and it booted first time, all memory detected and IDE working. Never thought I'd see an 8 digit "other mem" value :D

Thanks @terriblefire for this cracking board.

BTW, what would I gain by adding the IDE buffers?

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[terriblefire]

BTW, what would I gain by adding the IDE buffers?

You could keep your hard disk in your neighbours garage and run a cable. Many Germans seem to want to do this.

[ube]

BTW, what would I gain by adding the IDE buffers?

You could keep your hard disk in your neighbours garage and run a cable. Many Germans seem to want to do this.

No, it's the Austrians that keep their girls hidden away.. (Too soon for a Fritzl joke?)

[Lemaru]

I notice the silkscreen on the buffer says "No ICs the RNs, Populate RNs". Not sure the extra "the RNs" text needs to be there. ;)

(Sorry I always pick up on typos and stuff)

[Danoo]

I notice the silkscreen on the buffer says "No ICs the RNs, Populate RNs". Not sure the extra "the RNs" text needs to be there. ;)

(Sorry I always pick up on typos and stuff)

Pretty sure the RNs are there too provide a path to the IDE if you do not attach the buffer chips (eg: buffer chips attached No 0 ohm RNs required, buffer chips not attached, Yes 0 ohm RNs required)

Still waiting to receive my own boards via the slow boat to OZ, but that is what I would reason the silkscreen to be indicating :D

[matt020]

Pretty sure the RNs are there too provide a path to the IDE if you do not attach the buffer chips (eg: buffer chips attached No 0 ohm RNs required, buffer chips not attached, Yes 0 ohm RNs required)

Yeah I think he gets what the RN's for, its the sentence that doesn't make sense. Read it out loud if you have to :lol:

[terriblefire]

I think there is a typo there

"IDE Interface (IC4,IC5,IC6 & RNs Below)
Buffered = Populate ICs, Remove RNs
Unbuffered = No ICs the RNs, Populate RNs "

Should be

"IDE Interface (IC4,IC5,IC6 & RNs Below)
Buffered = Populate ICs, Remove RNs
Unbuffered = No ICs, Populate RNs "

But in the scheme of things i dont care.

[terriblefire]

Really glad that people are enjoying the 536. Its the cumulative efforts of the 330 series and 534.

[Danoo]

Yeah I think he gets what the RN's for, its the sentence that doesn't make sense. Read it out loud if you have to :lol:

Yeah you are right, read the post again, thought this was electronics 101, not grammar 101 :sarcasm:

[matt020]

Yeah I think he gets what the RN's for, its the sentence that doesn't make sense. Read it out loud if you have to :lol:

Yeah you are right, read the post again, thought this was electronics 101, not grammar 101 :sarcasm:

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