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From: eric@hector.UUCP (Eric Lavitsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recoverable Ram Disks
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Date: 27 Dec 87 05:40:42 GMT
References: <8712270113.AA19112@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <8712270113.AA19112@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	VDK: is much faster as it uses a device-driver interface (like RAM:)
>rather than simulate a trackdisk.device as VD0: does.  Since I do not have
>VDK:, I cannot vouch for its compatibility. 
>
>				-Matt

A minor correction in semantics:

	VDK: uses a handler like RAM: to achieve it's speed.
	VD0: uses a device driver to work like trackdisk.device

The ASDG-RRD is limited by the standard AmigaDOS->Device throughput
limitation which is currently around 138,000 bytes/second. I believe
that with a handler, one can achieve around 800,000 bytes/second.

Eric

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