Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!telepro!tptbbs!James_Hastings-Trew From: James_Hastings-Trew@tptbbs.UUCP (James Hastings-Trew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: How to create a ram disk on AMAX II? Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 16:04:56 GMT Organization: TelePro Technologies Lines: 28 In a message dated Sat 15 Jun 91 04:46, Maji@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu (ji M wrote: MM> There is a option on AMAX II startup screen that allow you to reserve MM> ram for MM> a ram disk. I create a ram disk on amiga side and rename it as AMAX MM> and start MM> the AMAXII. The AMAX do find this ram disk and reformated. But no MM> icon for MM> it, so I can not use it inside AMAX II. Can any body tell me what is MM> wrong MM> with my method or AMAX II? The Amax RAM disk has nothing to do with the Amiga's RAM disk. If you set aside some memory for the Amax RAM disk on the Amax startup screen, then when you run Amax, press the F1 key to create that RAM disk. If it is not formatted then it will want to do that. If the format takes a very short amount of time, and no ICON appears, then you have not got enough memory set aside to actually create a working RAM disk. On my system I set aside 2 megs for a RAM disk, and that seems to be good. I do most of my work in the RAM disk and only put finished stuff on the HD. Faster than a real MAC that way. Before Amax II's HD support, I used to copy the Mac system disk into the RAM disk and restart the Amax system. A simple hit of the F1 key is all you need to "insert" the RAM disk, and BLAM, the system re-boots in seconds and is scads faster than running off floppies. Now that I have HD support I don't do that any more.