dsg@cci632.cci.com (David Greenberg) (04/26/91)
I have an A2000 with 3 megs of ram (fastram) and I when I try to format my rad with more than 22 cyls. (Low=0 High=21) I get a checksum error!! Anyone have any Idea why???? Is there some kind of limit??? Dave
darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr25.235004.14460@cci632.cci.com> dsg@ccird1.UUCP (David Greenberg) writes: > > I have an A2000 with 3 megs of ram (fastram) and I when I try to >format my rad with more than 22 cyls. (Low=0 High=21) I get a checksum error!! >Anyone have any Idea why???? > >Is there some kind of limit??? > > > Dave There is no such limit of 22; which version of ramdrive.device, and which version of FORMAT ... also, have you verified that the MEMORY is good? RAD allocates from the highest memory location that it can; the starting address decreases as the size increases.
xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) (04/28/91)
Small but possible problem; make sure your devs:mountlist entry for the mountlist you are _actually_ _using_ at bootup has a highcyl entry greater than 21 for your Rad: device. I remember some being issued with the 22 cylinder setup for small memory configurations; not having the memory allocated could be a possible cause for format errors. Kent, the man from xanth. <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) (04/28/91)
The following devs:mountlist entry works just fine for me: RAD: Device = ramdrive.device Unit = 0 Flags = 0 Surfaces = 2 BlocksPerTrack = 11 Reserved = 2 Interleave = 0 LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 79 Buffers = 5 BufMemType = 1 # -- * Bill Cavanaugh bleys@tronsbox.xei.com * * * * Who woulda thought that by staying in one place * * I'd become a refugee? * * * * Doug and the Slugs *
jsmoller@jsmami.UUCP (Jesper Steen Moller) (04/29/91)
In article <21000@cbmvax.commodore.com> darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald) writes: > > In article <1991Apr25.235004.14460@cci632.cci.com> dsg@ccird1.UUCP (David Greenberg) writes: > > > > I have an A2000 with 3 megs of ram (fastram) and I when I try to > >format my rad with more than 22 cyls. (Low=0 High=21) I get a checksum error!! > >Anyone have any Idea why???? > > > >Is there some kind of limit??? > > > > > > Dave > > There is no such limit of 22; which version of ramdrive.device, and which version > of FORMAT ... also, have you verified that the MEMORY is good? RAD allocates > from the highest memory location that it can; the starting address decreases as > the size increases. And remember that the HighCyl has to be odd... -- __ Jesper Steen Moller /// VOICE: +45 31 62 46 45 Maglemosevej 52 __ /// USENET: cbmehq!cbmdeo!jsmami!jsmoller DK-2920 Charl \\\/// FIDONET: 2:231/84.45 Denmark \XX/
dsg@cci632.cci.com (David Greenberg) (04/30/91)
Thre ram checks out with the Supra Test program...and I've never had a problem with it at all. I am using the ramdrive.device from the 1.3 diskette (don't know the version, but the file is dated 13-aug-88 and format is also dated the same day....I have never had any trouble with format or anything!!!! Dave