pds@quintus (Peter Schachte) (11/08/88)
Earlier, I asked about patches to 1.3 kickstart so that RAD: would be recoverable in an amiga equipt with an Insider board (with $c00000 memory). The good news is that you don't seem to need one. RAD: recovers fine for me with out-of-the-box 1.3 KS (patched with the latest noCLICKstart [silence is indeed golden - thanks whoever is behind this]). I can't vouch for other $c000000 memory, but it's worth a try! -Peter Schachte "Clean water? I'm for clean water." pds@quintus.uucp -George Bush ..!sun!quintus!pds
mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) (11/09/88)
pds@quintus (Peter Schachte) writes: > The good news is that you don't seem to need one. RAD: recovers fine > for me with out-of-the-box 1.3 KS (patched with the latest noCLICKstart > [silence is indeed golden - thanks whoever is behind this]). I can't > vouch for other $c000000 memory, but it's worth a try! I have a Squeeze-RAM board in my 1000, which gives me 1 MB RAM at $C00000. I'm currently running a 512K RAD: out of it which gives me no problems at all. Reboots are really dramatic -- it's so fast, it's actually fun to reboot the machine now. Anyway, according to an old AmigaLine I have lying around, the problem with $C00000 memory seems to occur when Exec performs a cold boot. It wipes clean CHIP and $C00000 memory. During a warm boot, the system just does some cleanup and starts over. The system can be fooled into a cold boot in the following ways: 1) If someone tries to post a recoverable alert. I belive SetPatch fixes this problem. 2) If you have more than 512K of chip memory. 3) If something writes to memory, corrupting an area Exec keeps a checksum for. 4) If someone patches a library routine without using SetFunction(). As you can see, these conditions are pretty rare -- I don't think there's that much to worry about if you have RAD: in $C00000. Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: mp1u+%andrew.cmu.edu@cmccvb UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "my friends say she's a dumb blonde, but they don't know she dyes her hair"