earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (08/11/88)
I have a Mac II with 5 Megs of RAM, Apple video card, and EtherTalk
board installed. I use Darin Adler's Sequencer on startup to first
run RamStart 1.3, then get MultiFinder going. RamStart creates a 320
kilobyte RAM disk, and puts the contents of {MPW}CIncludes: on it. If
you have extra memory, it's one way to coax more performance out of
MPW C.
The problem arises when I try to "Restart" the machine, either from
the Finder menu, MacsBug's "rb" command, or from the front programmer
switch button. RamStart always fails after a Restart, with error #
-57, which if you don't remember is "noMacDskErr." After a Shutdown,
however, RamStart always succeeds, even if I shut down and power up
the machine within a second or two.
Anybody know what is happening here? Might there be problems which
could affect other programs which run shortly after startup? I was
under the impression that a warm reboot was supposed to bring the
machine into an equivalent state to that which exists on a
cold-started machine, somewhere early on in the process.
Mr. Spock! This disk is damaged! Do you want to initialize it?
Earle R. Horton. H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755