Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!CRNLNS!DSR From: DSR@CRNLNS.BITNET (Dan Riley) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.i-amiga Subject: re: ASDG's VD0: RRDisk. Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 16:26:00 GMT Sender: Info-Amiga List Reply-To: Info-Amiga List Lines: 31 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Original_To: JNET%"i-amiga@ubvm" Greg Patterson writes: >Hi, just recently received ASDG's recoverable ram disk and I'm having >some problems getting it to work. [...] >I'm running an A500 + A501 + ARP 1.3. Any suggestions? Thanks! Tom Limoncelli (tlimonce@drew) mentioned that mount is case sensitive, which is true, but I think the case is right in your mountlist (I'm not at home where I could check this). Greg (gbeanes@ualr) said that the ARP mount command has some incompatibilities with AmigaDOS. This is also true, but I don't believe any of those problems bite vd0:. I mount vd0: with the arp mount command, and it works fine. Of course, your mileage might vary, so it's worth trying the AmigaDOS mount instead. If you are feeling conservative, you might want to get rid of the ARP mount command entirely. Here's possibility three: what version of vd0: are you using? According to Perry Kivolowitz (the original author), the "new improved" version making the rounds was produced by someone who disassembled Perry's original and then tried to improve it. The original was produced with an early version of the Manx compiler, and was fairly inefficient in places, so this isn't quite as stupid as it sounds (close, but not quite). However, in the process, some things were broken, and the new version does not work in some configurations that the older version handled. In particular, I seem to remember reading that the new version does not like $C00000 memory (which I believe the A501 is). So, if you are using the "new improved" version, you might want to get the original (Fish disk 58) and give it a try. -Dan Riley (dsr@crnlns) -Wilson Laboratory, Cornell University