[comp.os.minix] Ram Disk init with more than 360kb?

jens@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Jens Schweikhardt) (04/30/91)

Hello everybody,

this is the first time I post something to the usenet - hope
my question is of any interest:

Theres some lines in the manual telling about initialising
the ramdisk from the root floppy. I am told that I can only
read up to 360 kb to the ramdisk. That's the maximum for
single sided disks, ok. But if I have a double sided root disk
and give a drive specification of 2,8 (or whatever) instead
of hitting return when the system asks, will my ramdisk eventually
be initialised with more than 360 kb when there's so much on it?

Currently data is read in 18k chunks (4 tracks containing
4.5 kb each). Even when there's noc chance to read more than
360kb at startup, could I increase reading speed as a track now
contains 9k on a double sided disk?
Has anyone tried this before?

Jens Schweikhardt, jens@noc.belwue.de