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From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Partitioning RAD:
Message-ID: <3012@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 25 Nov 88 00:09:29 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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Greetings.  Amiga hack and friend of Sugar Land Unix, Steve Williams 
(swill@ficc.uu.net), who does not yet read this group, has discovered
that RAD: is partitionable.  You can set up fast and slow filesystem
partitions.  If the first partition is a slow filesystem, the system
will still autoboot from it.  If a slow filesystem partition is 
exactly 880K, you can still 'diskcopy' to it.

Note that you have to format the partitions before use or you'll get
"Not a DOS disk."  Apparently, RAD autoformats when it is one big
filesystem (?).  So for now you have to hit ENTER a couple of times
during cold start to get your multiple RAD partitions formatted,
because you'll have format commands in the portion of your startup-sequence 
that runs when RAD didn't recover or wasn't there and they'll ask you to 
hit 'enter.'

This will be useful for people with big lots of memory.  One can
set up an "Ultra RAD" boot where there is a big RAD fast filesystem
partition, while retaining the autoboot capability.  Granted, the RAD
partitions will be fixed size, unlike VD0: and RAM:, but I guess it'll
be a lot faster -- haven't tried it yet.
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