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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RAD: memory limits
Message-ID: <6703@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 21:44:08 GMT
References: <11443@pur-ee.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <11443@pur-ee.UUCP> youngb@pur-ee.UUCP (H. Bret Young) writes:
>
>A friend of mine asked me to ask the net a question he has about
>RAD:. He asks the following:
>
>     Ask the net (as I am not yet on the groups) about a
>   problem that I am having with RAD:. I have a 2Meg RAM-BOard and a 2Meg
>   Starboard II attached to my Amiga 1000. I cannot seem to get a RAD:
>   bigger than 2.0 Meg to survive a warm boot. I have no problems with one
>   that is below 2Meg, but even a few blocks more gives me grief. I know
>   that the memory is not continuous because it resides on two different
>   boards that autoconfig, but MergeMem works fine and creates one big 
>   4.5 Meg memory space (512K built-in RAM). I can see where RAD: cannot
>   span board boundaries, but is it possible to fix RAD: so that it does
>   a MergeMem and THEN looks to the now contiguous memory space for it's
>   pointers or data or whatever it looks for? I would really appreciate 

nope;  because there is probably a memory header right in the middle
of the contigious block that RAD required.  Sure, RAD could
merge the cards if they are mergable, but that won't restore
the missing data that used to be where the memory header now is.

The easiest thing to do is go into a copy of the ramdrive binary and
change the name so you can have another one.  I didn't say this, however :-)
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