Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!ucselx!maxc0849 From: maxc0849@ucselx.sdsu.edu (InnerTangent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Why not use RAD:? Message-ID: <1990Oct22.160121.9197@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Date: 22 Oct 90 16:01:21 GMT References: <46200136@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <9307@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1990Oct22.033330.22005@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <6864@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 40 peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1990Oct22.033330.22005@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >> Why are people still searching for a recoverable ram disk? "It's in >> there!" If there's something horribly wrong with RAD:, I'm not sure I >> want to know at this late date. Is my computer about to develop dry rot >> or something? >Well, if you can afford a 6.5 meg RAD: you probably wouldn't have noticed, >but RAD: is a *fixed* size RAM disk. You have to decide ahead of time just >how much you're going to slosh into there. One of the great things about >RAM: and its emulators (VD0:, VDK:) is that you *don't* have to lock down >a fixed chunk of RAM for the purpose. >(as for me, I just go right to my Quantum... fastest bloody drive I've ever > seen in a PC. Dicking with a RAM disk is just painting the lily.) >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. Yes. That's very true. the RRAM, VDP: VDK: are quite flexible; for they return all the 'free' or 'unused' sectors of the Recoverable 'RAMDisk' to the OS. But! All these memory allocations fragement your Fast memory so much that every once in a while, (after messive writing/erasing the ram: drive) you got to reboot again (with your ram disk, of course) to obtain a new, clean, un-fragmented memory to work with. Other then that, the *flexible* ram drives are quite nice. p.s. Now tell me, is there a *fixed* recoverable ram drive that could handle -more- then one recov. ramdrive mounted at the same time? (I don't think RAD: could do that) BECAUSE I need a disk-sized RAD: to boot up (it's full), and yet another one for downloading/lharc-zooing/testing/etc. Could somebody assist me on this one? Thank you. -- [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [] Only Amiga makes it Possible.. | InnerTangent: maxc0849@ucselx.sdsu.edu [] [] Mind is the basis of reality. | In Real Life: Bill Chiu []