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From: schwager@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Non-Recovering Recoverable Ram Disk
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 19:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 19:05:00 1987
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Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!schwager    Oct 20 18:05:00 1987


I've got an annoying problem.  I've got an Amiga 500 with A501 ram
expansion.  I've got ASDG's recoverable ram disk.  It doesn't recover!
I use Manx Aztec C 3.4a, and I like to put everything on ram disk when
I work- includes (the ones I need, anyhow), compiler, assembler, linker,
c.lib, and microemacs; in addition to my most often used cli commands.

But when I've got a lot of stuff in vd0: and crash the system
(which I manage to do quite often), the recoverable ram disk is no
longer there on warm reboot, and I have to copy the stuff into it all
over again.  My RRD is 512K big (the high track is set to 61), and I am
using mem type 5... the fast ram.  When  I get 736 blocks used (ie, 368K),
the RRD works fine.  But if I have 744 used, it is wiped upon reboot.
I tried changing the size of the RRD, but it doesn't seem to help.  As
long as I get above some number which is close to 740, the RRD doesn't
R.  What could be wrong?  Thanks.
-mike schwager
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