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From: dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave 'Yes, I'm weird' Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: "Non-Volatile" Ram Disks
Message-ID: <718@carroll1.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 21:31:55 GMT
References: <2466@td2cad.intel.com>
Reply-To: dnewton@carroll1.UUCP (Dave 'Yes, I'm weird' Newton)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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In article <2466@td2cad.intel.com> jmarek@td2cad.intel.com (John Marek) writes:
>Are there any "non-volatile" ram disks for the ST.  In general, the way these 
>work is that periodically (or on command) changes are flushed to a backup disk
>file.  On power-up/reboot, the contents of the disk file are written to the 
>memory disk.

   That would be silly.  What if you did some work on a ram-based file right
after it had been saved then had a power failure?  Or just turned the machine
off?  If that's what you want, fine, but it would seem like a waste.

   Maxidisk (PD) is reset-proof and does have an autocopy program with it,
but I don't know of any non-cartridge non-volatile ram disks.

>On a semi-related question, is there any problem with keeping an ST running 
>continuously?

   God I hope not, 'cuz mine's one probably 20 hours a day.  And a lot of
BBS's use ST's.

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