Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!trillium!achowe From: achowe@trillium.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: RAM disks Message-ID: <5269@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 21 Feb 88 14:52:42 GMT References: <439@dukempd.UUCP> <1418@water.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu Reply-To: achowe@trillium.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 43 Keywords: The good news... I don't know if this will help, but "Compute!'s Atari ST" magazine Issue 5, Vol 2, No.3 provided a recoverable RAM disk which recovered from system crashes 90% of the time. Mag/disk provided both .TOS and .S files. It was totally configurable for size, drive name, and files to copy to the RAM disk. I used it from the time it came out on my 1040 ST till I switched to a Mega ST2... ...the bad news... Except this gem of a program which was to be the corner stone of my development environment (1M recoverable RAM disk, wow!) does NOT work on the MEGA ST2 (gasp!!). What seems to happen is this, the disk sets up just fine from cold boot, but when you attempt to reset the system after a crash, the RAM disk program says it recovered (which I have determined to be true because a tool I have says the system is short 1M of memory after the reset) BUT fails to connect the RAM disk with the GEM icon for that disk. As to whether or not the RAM disk's data is intact, I have not been able to verify since I can't access it. I've been meaning to write the magazine and tell them to notify the author and/or have a look at the code myself but haven't as yet had time to play with it. Maybe *hint, nudge, poke, beat with large stick* if someone else could take a look at this fine program that doesn't seem to work to specs on MEGAs (grrrr) it might be possible to fix a bug or create a MEGA version. The magazine copyright does not allow me to pass the source around :-( - Ant ------------------------------------------------------------- achowe@trillium.waterloo.edu note: my nickname is for the fact that I eat a lot of "CrackerJack" candy and is not ment to suggest that I walk around wearing a patch, wooden leg while waving a sabre, raping large buxom women and sucking back kegs of rum faster than engineers can demolish 40 beers :) "The definition of flying: throwing yourself at the ground and missing." - Douglas Adam's "Life, the Universe and Everything"