jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Abbey) (01/16/91)
So, what can people tell me about the recoverable ram disk that appeared on a recent Fred Fish Disk? It allows multiple units, is fully recoverable, and deallocates memory from the ram disk according to the bitmap. It was done by The Other Guys, I believe, and it has changed my life. I was using 1.3 RAD: before, and on many operations I would wind up getting a "Disk RAMB0: is bad" requester, usually when I would do long operations, particularly with zoo (or so it seemed). I was greatly concerned that my external memory (StarBoard II fully loaded / A1000 512k) was flakey. With this ramdrive, I've had no errors of that sort, and can have two floppy sized ram disks active, but taking very little space above and beyond what is actually in the drive. Also, the LED flashes when the ram disk is accessing, and you can tell it to deal with diskcopy-type access, and and and.. My question is: what was wrong with RAD:, and how do I nominate The Other Guys for canonization? They've given me a whole new computer, it seems. 8-) -- Jonathan Abbey (512) 472-2052 \ (512) 835-3081 jonabbey@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu \ broccol@csdfx8a.arlut.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin \ Applied Research Laboratories