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From: lkoop@pnet01.cts.com (Lamonte Koop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: RAD: Problems (Won't Work)
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Date: 25 Nov 90 08:58:52 GMT
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IO92257@MAINE.BITNET writes:
>I have mounted RAD: on my A2000:
>  6.2 motherboard (purchased in April)
>  2 meg SupraRAM in first slot
>  2 floppies
>  1 Meg Agnus
   ^^^^^^^^--And herein probably lies a simple solution.

>Ok, here is the problem...I mount it,
>put files in it, (it is an 880K RAD:) then
>I reboot the machine (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga)
>No Dice.  The RAD: is GONE.  I did this with
>my A1000 with a Kickstart 1.3 disk and it
>booted from rad and everything....I've even

The fix is basically an addition to your Startup sequence.  Look for the
line: SetPatch >NIL: .  Change this to: SetPatch >NIL: r  , adding the
'r', lowercase, no slash. [If you want to see what it's doing, leave out
the '>NIL:' redirection, but that just clutters the screen.  The 'r' option
allows the use of RAD: or other recoverable ramdisks on 1-meg CHIP RAM
machines.  The reason it worked with your A1000, is that the 1000 was probably
(unless hacked up :-) ) using a 512K older Agnus.



                             LaMonte Koop
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