pattis@cs.washington.edu (Richard Pattis) (01/25/90)
I have a 16MB 386 machine. With that much space, I'd like to install Alsys on a Ramdisk (copying its state to a harddisk before powering down) and cut down on harddisk use. So, I made a 10MB ramdisk and installed Alsys Ada on it (with plenty of RAM left for the compiler work space). The problem is that I can't get anything to work for too long; sometime the installation itself hangs. When I called Alsys, they told me that it might have to do with a "too fast" disk, so I powered my machine from 20 to 7Mhz but had the same problems. I was using EDISK (Everex's ramdrive driver). Then I switched to ECACHE (running the compiler from my harddisk, where it works just fine) with a 10Mb cache, and the same behavior resulted. Anyone out there actually get such a configuration to work? I'd appreciate hearing how. Rich Pattis