dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) (03/19/90)
Help! I have an A500 w/a A501 ram expander, for a total of 1 meg main memory. I wanted to create a rad: of size 440k. So, I went into MountList, changed HiCyl to 39, mounted it ok, but when I referenced it, no icon came up on workbench. Also, when I tried to 'cd' to it, I got the message "can't find device rad:" or some such. When I change HiCyl back down to 21, everything works fine. I suspect this is caused by the fact that when I try to mount it, I don't have a contiguous 440k memory segment available, but it says nothing about this in the docs that I have. Can anyone confirm this? Is there a way of working around this (besides buying more RAM :)? Thanx for any and all help, | /\ /\ /\/\ /\ Hi, my name is Cliff. Dave Schaumann | / \/\ \/ /\/ \/\ Drop over some time. dave@cs.arizona.edu | / /\ \/ / \ \ ba ha ha ha ha ha ha
dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann) (03/20/90)
Still trying to get a 440k rad: drive. I did some expermenting. First, I made the 1st 2 lines of my startup sequence file as thus: c:mount rad: c:copy c:ls rad: And then tried various values for HiCyl. The bottom line is I got up to 35 before weirdness set in. Along the way, I also discovered that my rad: device was coming out of CHIP RAM!!!!! No matter how big this sucker is, I definitely want it in FAST ram. BTW, I tried inserting "SYS:system/FastMemFirst" as the first line, but it changed nothing. Can anybody (please?) tell me how to make my rad: come from fast ram? Thank youThank youThank youThank youThank youThank youThank youThank you Dave Schaumann dave@cs.arizona.edu
koleman@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Kurt Koller) (03/23/90)
>before weirdness set in. Along the way, I also discovered that my rad: >device was coming out of CHIP RAM!!!!! No matter how big this sucker is, I >definitely want it in FAST ram. BTW, I tried inserting >"SYS:system/FastMemFirst" as the first line, but it changed nothing. Can >anybody (please?) tell me how to make my rad: come from fast ram? If in yur mountlist there is a line like "BufMemType=3" change it to "BufMemType=1" This specifies public ram rather than chip. A value of '5' would specify fast Ram only, and would die if it was run on a system without it. ============================================================================= | | Kurt Koller - Graphic MicroSystems - (612) 228-0127 | , | | Random | UUCP: {amdahl!bungia, crash}!orbit!pnet51!koleman | Cliche | | Quoted | INET: koleman@pnet51.orb.mn.org | phrase | | Garbage | ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!koleman@nosc.mil | dude. | ============================================================================= My views represent my employer's views entirely. However, I take no responsibility for them whatsoever.