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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Do you need contiguous memory to expand rad: ?
Keywords: rad:
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Date: 8 Nov 88 04:30:26 GMT
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In article <3398@tekig4.TEK.COM> billh@tekig4.TEK.COM (William Hansen) writes:
|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:
|||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.
|
|But Marco, what memory configuration do you have? I suspect the problem is
|that I have 3 unmergeable 1/2 meg blocks rather than a 1-1/2 meg one.
|I made a fresh copy straight off my original 1.3 workbench. I changed only
|the highcyl value, and then cold rebooted. The resulting RAD: would not
|work, It would say it was mounted, but you couldn't access it.

I have a 512K A2000 + 2Meg on an ASDG 8MI.  The 2 meg are contiguous.
Did you try to format it, or diskcopy df0: to rad: (which is what I do in
my startup sequence).

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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