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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
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Subject: Re: ASDG VD0: DOES NOT WORK!
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:34:10 GMT
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>In article <9144@helios.TAMU.EDU> n074ev@tamuts.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton) writes:
>If I were you I would use VDK: which is pd, and is a lot better than VD0:
>mainly because it survives gurus, which vd0: doesn't. 


   Back in the good old days when I still had my A1000 (recently sold it &
upgraded to a A2000) I also had problems with VD0:. The problem seemed to be
related to the internal memory hack I had done to piggyback rams on the
existing ones. I finally gave up on VD0: and used VDK:. It worked fine for
several years. I should remark though that VDK: is NOT PD. It was initially
posted to several national networks as PD, but was later removed (if I
remember correctly) because it was owned by a commercial company. There were
some problems with it when WB 1.3 came out (can't remember exactly what they
were). But I had to stop using it about that time. I remember a patch to VDK:
being posted on People Link a while back for some other problems it had.
   I now use VD0: on my A2000 & it survives gurus just fine (at least most of
them).
   There are some other PD recoverable ram disks available as well that you
might try. I think one of them was called RRamdisk or something like that. I
have seen it posted in numerous places.

						Terry

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