rothberg@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Edward Rothberg) (10/30/87)
This is what I've learned about RAM disks: 1) A number of utilities exist (CrashSaver, Bomb Shelter, ...) which enable the Resume button when an error occurs and attempt to return you to the Finder. This is not really what I'm looking for. 2) You can call the _ExitToShell trap yourself from the debugger after a crash. I would guess that this is just a less elegant version of (1). Again, not really what I want. 3) RamDisk+, a $10 or $15 shareware program which I can't find anywhere, allows you to reboot the machine and then attempts to recover the contents of the RAM disk from before the crash. Better, but still not quite there. 4) RamStart 1.3 has a News item in it which talks about RamStart 2.1, a $15 program "which will be available Fall '86 (RamStart 1.3 is an old program)". It is supposed to have disk corruption checks and crash recovery and all sorts of wonderful things. *This* is what I was looking for. Unfortunately, I've been told that it never materialized. People have sent the $15 to the author and not received anything. If you have any more information please send me mail. Ed Rothberg rothberg@rocky.stanford.edu
jts@siemens.UUCP (James T Sasaki) (11/03/87)
Edward Rothberg writes > Unfortunately, I've been told that [RamStart 2.1] never materialized. > People have sent the $15 to the author and not received anything. Since I sent Edward some mail recently on RamStart 2.1, I believe I am the person (a person?) he refers to. To be fair to George Nelson (the author of RamStart), I should explain that I sent a check and a blank disk in late June to him at the Brattle address listed in the RamStart help. My check hasn't been cashed, but I haven't gotten back my disk either. On a related note, if anyone out there actually has RamStart 2.1, please send me mail: I'd be interested in hearing about how well it works. Thank you. Jim Sasaki (jts@siemens.com, jts%siemens.com@csnet-relay.arpa, ...{princeton|rutgers}!siemens!com)