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Subject: Re: ASDG rrd bug (?)
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Date: Sat, 14-Mar-87 22:33:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 14 22:33:07 1987
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Reply-To: mmcp@vice.UUCP (Mark McPherson)
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In article <2028@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> walton@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (Steve Walton) writes:

[...Summary of my posting regarding loss of RRD contents during warm
boot..followed by]

>I thought I had the same problem on my system (512K RRD with 1 Meg
>Amiga).  As Perry Kivilowitz explained to me, that isn't the problem
>at all.  AmigaDOS puts some of its own data structures (100+K worth)
>in the low end of your fast memory on bootup.  So, if you try to create
>a 1 MB RRD on a 1.5MB machine, the RRD "borrows" chip RAM to do the job.
>Under these conditions, the RRD often doesn't recover.  Moral:  follow
>Perry's recommended maximum size in his Mountlist as posted;  they're
>there for a reason.
>    Mild flame:  On a related topic, I was shocked to hear that only
>about 20 people have sent ASDG $10 for the RRD.  There must be hundreds
>of you out there using it, and if you don't send in the $10, you'll
>never get anything like it again.  (Yes, I am one of the 20.)
>
>						Steve Walton

Wellll....I read Perry's documentation in the RRD Mountlist entry and
resized HighCyl from 127 to 95 as the documentation suggests it
should be.........hey presto, no more problems with the RRD
evaporating during warm resets.  Works like a champ, every time!

On the theory that software like this which *really* works is cheap
at twice the price (as long as the price is reasonable) I'm going to
send Perry $20.  Seems little enough to pay for something that saves
your butt every single time you have to reboot.......(and when I consider
how much I've paid for stuff that *didn't* work......).  This is a
program that really ought to be supported financially by the Amiga community.

But now I don't have enough space for all the stuff I need to dump
to the RRD!  Hey, Perry, got any nifty software to give me, oh, an
extra megabyte or so of memory? 8-)

	   --  Mark  --