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From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: "How to move Harddiskdevicedrivers SLOW>FAST"
Summary: where my father is going you dont need water
Keywords: my mother watched television
Message-ID: <1991May26.150242.21983@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 26 May 91 15:02:42 GMT
Sender: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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"Good" News to the people with a problem something like this:
"Sysinfo said my hard disk device drivers were in Slow, and not in Fast RAM,
and told me to move them to Fast RAM first thing."

I don't have "The" solution for this, but want to tell you a story:

I started one of these threads some weeks ago, and got only questions from
other people, who wanted to know if I had got any positive advice.
The only "positive" advice I received was about changing it in the mountlist;
I posted this, but was told by several, that this would not work on autoboot-
ing FFS systems(like my gvp). It may work on some, though.

So, I forgot about it. But three days ago, a friend of mine and myself left
our computers at a Repair center, to have them move several things for us.
Amongst the things they did, was put my 2.5 meg internal RAM in his A500,
then upgrade my agnus so I'd have 1meg chipram, and put 2 meg SIMM in my GVP.
I bought myself 1/2 meg internal RAM with clock, and put that in too.

And when I got home, SYSINFO TOLD ME MY DEVICE DRIVERS WERE IN FAST RAM NOW!

So to sum up:
- I don't know what of this caused it, but I know they were in slow 
  ram before, and in fast ram after.
- My system is an A500 with 1.3 Kickstart,and new agnus(1MB chip).
  An Impact Series II harddisk eq. with 2MB simm
  and a 1/2 meg with clock internally in the 500.
- I don't know what this slow/fast ram thing is good/bad for(speaking of
  harddisks). I did not seem to miss any of the 512 k chip mem before(?).
- I don't know if one could reformat/use faaastpreepsss to change this
  slow/fast thing(like changing the mountlist on previous/elder systems).


So if someone with any brains had any idea what this is all about(like
got a clue from my example) and would explain to the rest of the few of us
interested in this, this posting would have served its purpose.
--
From the notorious
                      Jakob Gaardsted, Computer Science Department
Bed og arbejd !            University of Aarhus,  Jylland (!)
(Pray and work!)  AMIGA!  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk | I'd rather play Moria.