Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!sactoh0!pacengr!americ!erk From: erk@americ.UUCP (Erick Parsons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Need info on addbuffers Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 11:25:22 GMT References: <142.27F42C78@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Lines: 26 >In article <142.27F42C78@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes: > > 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? > >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. I just refired up an old friend, FaccII by ASDG. It's a floppy disk buffer cache with low memory deallocation protection. It set's it's buffers in Fast Ram. -- Erick Parsons, Sacramento erick@sactoh0.sac.ca.us <-- Right off the freeway -- {ames att sun }!pacbell!sactoh0!pacengr!americ!erk <-- At the end of the road --