Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!amdahl!dlb!dana!rap
From: rap@dana.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAW Track READ and Write
Message-ID: <301@dana.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 18:21:37 GMT
References: <114@dover.uucp> <22740@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 19
Keywords: Track, TrackDevice, Disk, Floppy
Summary: Thats what happens when...

In article <22740@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) writes:
> 
> The example in the RKM is defective.  The disk buffer MUST be allocated from
> CHIP memory:
> 
> 	if (!( bufferp=AllocMem(BLOCKSIZE,MEMF_CHIP) ))
> 		cleanup(10);

If you are developing examples when the largest available memory size
you can get your hands on is 512K ---- Thanks for finding it and pointing
it out, Bryce.  When we created the initial example, "everything" was
MEMF_CHIP and simply didnt think beyond that for some cases.

I developed a bug in the audiotools (version 2) because I run with 
a 2.5meg machine and forgot to unplug the extra RAM just to see if
it would still work.  Says a lot for getting QA involved so you have
someone else thinking about 'all possible configurations'.

Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!dana!rap