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3-Feb-91
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ramdisk.lzh 7296 Approx time (min): 8 at 300 baud, 2 at 1200 baud
Contributed by: rkesterson Date: Sun Sep 30 12:27:08 1990
This program is a recoverable ram disk. Yes, another one!
The difference between this and other PD disks is that it supports
up to 32 units and can be auto-booted in Kickstart 1.3. The extra
units allow you to mount one bootable device (which must be a normal
DOS unit) and another unit for your work which can use the
FastFileSystem. You might even mount a third unit for fast disk
copies, if you have the memory.
This ram disk differs from RAD: in that unused sectors are deleted
from memory, therefore, you won't be tying up valuable memory with
empty junk. This ram disk may be formatted, copied to, or used just
like a normal disk drive. Your LED light will flash on and off as
ram disk activity occurs.
Keywords: $binary device disk rad: ram ramdisk recoverable utility
Download count: 97
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Readme
This is a recoverable ram disk that I got from a disk magazine.
According to the docs for this thing, it is freely distributable, so
if this is not the case, someone please correct me.
At any rate, I have this little gem installed on my A3000. Works under
1.3 and 2.0, and I have had no trouble at all with it (about two months
of use so far). The only "trouble" I had with it is it wasn't a whole
lot speedier than the normal RAD: device. So I fooled with the mountlist
a little, and now it is measuring very high (about 4.5 or 5 megabytes per
second) on DiskSpeed (your mileage may vary -- this is a A3000 I'm
basing these numbers on).
The supplied file "montlist" is the original one from the creators of
this software. My mountlist entry follows:
/* an example of a ramdisk using the FastFileSystem */
Fast:
Device = ramdisk.device
Unit = 2
Flags = 7
Surfaces = 4
BlocksPerTrack = 16
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 32
Buffers = 1
BufMemType = 5
Mount = 1
GlobVec = -1
FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
MaxTransfer = 65536
DosType = 0x444F5301
BootPri = -128
#
Have fun. If there are problems, contact the authors (see the other doc
file).
