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From: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires)
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Subject: Re: Doing some things with the Ramworks III
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Date: 22 Mar 91 05:37:45 GMT
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ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) writes:

>First, there is ramdrive to create a ram disk for dos 3.3, and
>prodrive to make one for prodos. Is there any way I could just
>copy files to the ramdrive, switch to prodos, and have the
>files be intact? Not really a necessary function but it would
>save me a step.

I don't think there is a way to create the DOS 3.3 RAM Drive and keep it
intact under ProDOS - if that's what you're talking about.

>Second, I would like to split the prodos ram disk into two
>drives. I thought I could just create the prodrive, locking out
>the 2nd 64k (normal prodos ramdisk space), switch it to a different
>drive location, rename it, and then have prodos create its normal
>/ram disk. However I can't get this to work. No matter what I do,
>I can only get one unique ram disk (even though it may be located
>in two different drive locations, say s3d2 and s5d2, it's the same
>disk).

I really don't think there's a way to partition the ProDrive on RamWorks. You
can change the emulated S and D, but I don't think you can have two of them.