Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RRD Next release?
Message-ID: <1504.AA1504@heimat>
Date: 20 Jul 88 03:08:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <7415@cup.portal.com>, sirius@cup.portal.com writes:

>In article: <1194@raybed2.UUCP> Lance Holmes writes:
>>I read in the May issue of Amiga world that the recoverable Ram disk
>>which is planned for the next release of the O. S. will be simular to
>>the ASDG RRD.  Does this mean that it will be of a fixed length that is
>>defined in the mountlist or will it be a virtual ram disk simular to 
>>VDK. 
>
>>I'd also like to hear some pro's or con's with respect to the two different
>>techniques.  Personally I like the virtual method better. 
>
>It is like ASDG's, it uses a fixed number of tracks (As of yet I can't get 
>it to make a disk bigger than 80 tracks.  It comes back with "handler not
>found" when I do).  In this case it's nic,e because KS1.3 allows you to
>boot Workbench from it, so it has to be the same as any other amigados
>disk (except for the highest track).
>
  Hmmm this is odd, its been awile since I used CBM's RRD - but I thought
  it went bigger than 80 tracks. Carolyn - Andy?

>personally I like the ASDG method of pre-allocating the maximum size of the
>disk.  Nothing more annoying than having you RRD chew up all your ram,
>and sometimes MORE than you have, because you weren't keeping a close enough
>eye on how much free RAM you have.  I don't mind it for smaller or temporary
>storage, but for heavy use like VD0: and CARD: (I killed my ASDG entry and
>renamed CARD: to VD0:) I'd definately prefer pre-allocating as opposed to v
>virtually allocating it on the fly.
>
  Well im just the opposite - I like my ram disk to grow on the fly :-)

  This way if im doing alot of C code - compiling - downloading from Berks Amiga
  BBS - ect. I don't have to worry about running into the max size of my RRD.
  Also if I want to fool around with Psound and my digitizer (to do something
  important like Roger Rabbit) and need the ram for a large size sample, having a
  allocate as you go RRD gives me memory that otherwise would have been alocated
  to the RRD.

  I have the 1.3 RRD and ASDG's VD0: but I use (and prefer for the reasons above)
  the one by Neil Katin called VDK: also known as Survivor. (VDK: is a commercial
  product - not PD or ShareWare)


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