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From: sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: BuffMemType in 1020 Mountlist
Keywords: Does it HAVE to be 2,3?
Message-ID: <3931@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 23:36:28 GMT
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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I've recently been having troubles with my 1020 5 1/4" drive.  It
came up with a read error every time I tried to access it.  It
would format a disk, okay, but would later refuse to read it.
Remembering I had been fooling with the mountlist recently, I
compared it to the original C-A 1.3 mountlist and I saw that I had
changed the BufMemType keyword from a value of 3 (Chip RAM) to 1
(for any available RAM). So, I changed it back to 3, thinking
nothing would change, but now the drive is happy again and reads
the very same disks it wouldn't earlier.  Is this really the case;
does it need buffers in CHIP RAM?  If so, why?  Why must I destroy
precious chip memory, when I have this fast RAM sitting on the side
of my 1000, just waiting for something to be put in it?

Thank you for your support!
Scot 
sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu
Scot Kleinman Astronomy Dept. U Texas Austin TX 78712