Recoverable ( and bootable) Ram Disk
Copyrights (C) 1990 - Bob Dayley and The Other Guys
This program may be freely distributed as long as this document is
included unchanged with the program. Distribution includes uploads, PD disk
distribution, giving to your friends, and releases with commercial products.
Any release of this program without this document is considered an
infringement of copyright.
This program is a recoverable ram disk. Yes, another one! The difference
between this and other PD disk 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.
To install:
1. Copy the file 'ramdisk.device' to your DEVS: directory.
2. Edit your DEVS:mountlist and include one or more entries similiar
to the mountlist included with this distribution.
3. Mount your device. (mount BOOT:) etc.
4. The device is already to use. It does NOT need to be formatted,
although you may format it if you want to clear the disk (and see
how fast it formats!)
NOTE: This disk is cannot be mounted with RAD:. They are very incompatable!
Do not 'mount RAD:' if you are going to mount any units which use this
device. (We tried to get it to be compatable, but there seems to be
a bug or something not documented in 1.3 with SumKickData().)
To create a bootable device, use an entry similiar to the BOOT: entry in
the included mountlist and copy your various startup directorys and
sequences over to the ram disk. There is no need to install BOOT: as it
always writes the bootblock to DOS as a Commodore bootblock (in other words,
it is virus-proof!)
Also, there are flags to control whether or not each unit is recoverable,
DiskCopy-able, and/or auto-mounting. These flags are described in the
included mountlist.
Enjoy!
The Other Guys supports Amiga developers!
Also, The Other Guys is always accepting software submissions for
commercial release. If you have written a program you think can be marketed
commercially, please contact us at address or phone number below.
Bob Dayley
Author - Synthia, Synthia II,
Synthia Pro, Promise, etc.
The Other Guys
55 North Main St. Suite 301D
PO Box H
Logan,Ut 84321
USA
800-942-9402 - Submissions, Catalogs, Orders.
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Quick Installation Of RRAMDISK
NOTE: RRAMDISK stands for Recoverable Ram Disk. This means that anything
you copy into it can be recovered, and will still be there even if you
have to reboot! Not only this, but this particular ram disk acts JUST
LIKE a real floppy disk drive. No other RAM disks act this way.
INSTALLATION
This installation procedure will allow you to quickly install this
RRAMDISK without significantly altering your current Workbench
configuration.
1. Type from CLI:
COPY AX34.2:MOUNTLIST DEVS:MOUNTLIST.RAM
This will copy the mountlist without destroying your
original mounstlist.
2. Type from CLI:
COPY AX34.2:RAMDISK.DEVICE DEVS:
This installs the ramdisk device on your workbench.
3. Type from CLI:
MOUNT FROM DEVS:MOUNTLIST.RAM BOOT:
This is the actual command that activates the ramdisk. If you do
this often, you may want to add this same line into your startup-
sequence which can be found in directory S: of your Workbench disk.
If your current startup-sequence mounts RAD: Commodore's much less
powerful ramdisk, then you must remove the line that mounts it.
All the startup-sequence editing can be done from any wordprocessor
that works in ASCII. NOT WordPerfect, Excellence! or ProWrite.
Enjoy, this is truly a powerful and useful utility.
