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From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Maxidisk- The best ramdisk there is
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Date: 13 Dec 90 14:05:13 GMT
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In article <2875@polari.UUCP> pv@polari.UUCP (Paul Varn) writes:
>While people are proposing their favorite ram disks, I have to say something
>about Maxidisk.
>[good stuff about how Maxidisk compresses, autocopies, etc.]

Does Maxidisk handle files bigger than 512K?  I don't know why, but most
of the RAMdisks I've tried seem unable to handle big files.  To test
any given RAMdisk, I copy nethack.ttp (> 600K) into the RAMdisk, and
then try to run it.  With almost all RAMdisk drivers I've found you
get two bombs when you try to run the copy.  :-(

Edisk is a notable exception to this rule.   Does anyone know why
big files cause problems with most RAMdisks?

Dave Baggett
dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net