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From: ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Do you need contiguous memory to expand rad: ?
Summary: It may work if you're careful...
Keywords: rad:
Message-ID: <5757@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 88 04:23:20 GMT
References: <3387@tekig4.TEK.COM> <13260@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <13260@oberon.USC.EDU>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> In article <3387@tekig4.TEK.COM| billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) writes:
> |I was experimenting with rad: the other day and I decided to try to
> |enlarge it to floppy size highcyl=79 to see if I could play RocketRanger
> [stuff deleted]
> |which lead me to conclude that the default rad: (highcyl=27) works, and that
> |setting it to 79 doesn't.
> 
> I have been running RAD: with 79 cyl for months with no problem. I know
> of lots of others as well.
> 
> -- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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When we tried setting up a RAD:, we ran into a slight
problem, ... We started with RAD: at 101 cylinders.  It
mounted ok, worked, but we wanted MORE!!... 

We altered the mountlist to 111 cylinders, rebooted, 
and - that 1.2 Meg got eaten.  Gone.  It wasn't in the
system (well, not accessible.)

So - tried again (after powering down, etc.), and the new
setting worked.  What SEEMS to work (better than powering
down, anyway) is to run RemRAD: to kill off the old RAD:
before you make a new one (not sure if you still have to
re-boot, but...)

Disclaimer:  Our system has been flakey lately... just got
done with some hardware hacking to try and settle it down,
so maybe nothing normal was working.  (Oh - our system is
a 1000 with a 2 meg Starboard - and therefore (I think?)
probably has a big chunk of contiguous memory.  I'm just
mentioning our troubles in case it's not a question of
memory.)

Robin LaPasha
ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu