Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recoverable Ram Disks
Message-ID: <1333@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 88 13:26:19 GMT
References: <8712270113.AA19112@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 17
Summary: Warning, Will Robinson.

In article ... 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.

Warning, Will Robinson.

I've had RAM: screw up on me. When I access it as "RAM:", it's fine. When
I access it as "RAM Disk:" it sometimes locks up. Since "RAM Disk" is the
name it goes by in the device table, this is more than a mite irritating.

Now, this could be caused by something other than the fact that RAM: doesn't
look like a disk. It could even be caused by something other than RAM:. I'm
still going to stick with VD0:, myself.
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