fish@sun.uucp (Lorenz Fish) (06/24/87)
Help needed with vd0: creation!
I have recently acquired a 512K Amiga1000 with
one (count 'em! one) floppy drive and to relieve
some of the bother of reboots I have been trying to
get vd0: to work. I have the device description
and am able to run 'mount vd0:' with no complaints.
I am unable to access the device, though. If I
do 'dir vd0:' next I get
Cannot get information about vd0:. Insufficient free store.
Does this mean what it sounds like? Am I doomed to
'copy' essential commands to ram: each reboot until
I get more RAM? (yeah, I know, and/or another disk drive...)
Anyone got any tips on how to make this work on a
near-minimal system?
Thanks in advance!
Lorenz Fish
uucp:{anywhere}!sun!fish
The preceding message is mine, you hear!?perry@well.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz) (06/24/87)
Did you make sure that the BufMemType is not set to 5? Make it 3 (this field is the flag to an allocmem that the system does - no way around it since 1.2 will crash if you tell it to use NO buf- fers). Perry
bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt) (06/25/87)
> Did you make sure that the BufMemType is not set to 5? Make it 3 > [or it won't work on a machine with only 512k] > Perry Why not 1? 5 says "FAST, PUBLIC memory only". 3 says "CHIP, PUBLIC only" and 1 says "Whatever PUBLIC memory you have". At VD0: time this will be fast, if you have any! It's just one less setting that needs to be fiddled with to move <-> to other configurations of the Amiga. Jab at Commodore -> There needs to be a new type: HYBRID for you_know_what. |\ /| . Ack! {o O} . ( " ) bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- usbvax!cogsci!bryce U Single tasking? Just say *NO!* Tip of the day: The Gamma 1 and Release V1.2 kickstart disks *must* be different because of that "V1.2" on the "Insert Workbench" screen. Yet the have identical revs for exec AND the $00FC00?? firmware image. Not even the minor rev was bumped.