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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Need info on addbuffers
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Date: 28 Mar 91 17:24:54 GMT
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 SB> pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes: 
 SB>  
 SB> > I've noticed that addbuffers always seems to use chip ram, I've 
 SB> even tried 
 SB> > running fastmemfirst and it still uses chip ram. Is there any way 
 SB> to get 
 SB> > addbuffers to use fast ram? 
 SB>  
 SB> While this probably won't help, I think that Addbuffers in Workbench 
 SB> 2.0 
 SB> uses fast ram. 
 SB>  
 SB> Is this correct? 
 SB>  
 
It would make more sense to me that AddBuffers uses the type of RAM 
required by the device for buffers (see BuffMemType in your mountlist).  
Floppy drives use the Agnus and therefore require buffer memory in Chip. 
 Hard drives don't and therefore get their buffer memory in Fast.  It
all depends on how the flag is set in the device structure.
 
My best guess, anyway.



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