Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!ncc!alberta!calgary!amc-vlsi!stone
From: stone@amc-vlsi.UUCP (Glen Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: External Ram Disk
Message-ID: <453@amc-vlsi.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 20:54:43 GMT
Organization: Alberta Microelectronic Centre, Calgary, AB.
Lines: 31
Summary: Performance Update

Hi,

  Well, I'm peeing myself constantly. The external ram disk will run
from any hard disk driver as I had hoped (expected). Thus if you have
a hard disk then the software that it comes with (ie. Atari, Supra)
will run it. You can even boot from it. Hell, you can even "park the head."
I'll still supply a driver though, as people with just floppies will
need it.

Currently I'm running a 2 meg ram disk using 256K chips and a SH204
hard disk. Things are working great. I've loaded my bin, lib, and
include to the ram disk (as well as temp). Running from a shell my
response time has improved.

I compiled a program consisting of 4 c files and 3 s files from hard
disk and from ram disk, the times are:

		Ram Disk:  177 sec
		Hard Disk: 241 sec

I'm using Alcy(holic) 4.14 and the Bammi cc program. Oh yes, using
MadMac and Aln.

For those interested, you maybe should phone. Mail doesn't always make
it here.

Glen Stone
(403) 277-9171 night
(403) 289-2043 day