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From: tech@usceast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: An external RAM disk for the ST
Message-ID: <2327@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Feb-87 15:55:28 EST
Article-I.D.: usceast.2327
Posted: Mon Feb 23 15:55:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Feb-87 22:36:53 EST
References: <687@vaxwaller.UUCP> <556@viper.UUCP>
Reply-To: tech@usceast.UUCP (Bill Wood)
Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia
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In article <556@viper.UUCP> john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) writes:
>Yup, such a device exists.  It's called the PolyDisk.  It's put out by:
>	Polyware ST
>	5715 Horning Rd.
>	Kent, Ohio  44240
>	(Phone: 216-673-5591)
> 
I have been using this product for about a week and it seems to work very
well indeed. I have experienced very few problems with it. I just wish
it was larger. I expect that I will be able to fix that in the near
future. It is just the ticket for use with the MTC-shell since it let's
me put the compiler temp files and some of the common utilities outside
of main memory. You are correct about using system ram. It will allow
this but I don't recommend it since the system image will be corrupted
by bad code. The external memory will not be munged however and a reboot
will install the driver and your files will still be intact.

		Bill Wood