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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need help with MAC II....HELP!
Message-ID: <1961@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 18:50:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 18:50:35 1987
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martyl@bucket.UUCP (Marty Lee) writes:
>I was flipping though the various sizes of RAM cache sizes when
>I noticed the range was from 16K to 750K.  In my fooling around
>I turned it on by mistake and closed the DA while the cache was
>set for 750K!!! [....]

This bit me too, so the answer might be of general interest:

Take or make a spare startup disk, borrow a Mac and ResEdit, open the
System file, and delete the resource of type CACH (you could also
delete INIT 35, or whatever it is).  When you boot with this disk, you
won't lose any memory to the RAM disk, and you can use the Control
Panel to set the memory back down again.

If you're using an older Mac, you can just install a newer Control Panel
(and the General cdev, if you're going to get real recent) on an older
System disk and avoid the ResEdit step.

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