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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang)
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Subject: Re: RAMFast SCSI Question....
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Date: 19 Apr 91 15:18:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr19.011125.2651@m.cs.uiuc.edu> bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
> Seriously, though, just make sure you do "Shutdown" from the Finder
>(or the similar commands in Wings and Prosel)- this function makes
>shutdown calls to the drivers which should purge the cache.
> I've never had a problem losing data with the RAMfast- I believe (someone
>said) it writes very soon afterward- i.e., your data shouldn't hang around
>in the RAMfast more than a few seconds without getting written.

OK, what about rebooting (or doing the self-test). Is it required to
do a shutdown before doing that?

BTW, speaking of shutdowns, I wrote a small CDA that did an OSShutdown
call, but it always trashes the Memory Manager checksum thingy so the
RAMDisk gets erased. According to the GS/OS ref, if I set the
appropriate bit to 0, it won't resize the RAMdisk. Does anyone know
what I'm doing wrong?

>--
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