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Subject: VD0: Quandry...
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Date: 26 May 89 04:48:44 GMT
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If you can help, please E-mail me directly... This distribution has swamped
my mailbox, and I can't afford to stay directly linked to it -- Thanks!!


Hello there!

        I've been having many troubles with ASDG's VD0: Ram Drive, and I'm
hoping someone can help me...

        My computer: A-1000, with 512k of ram @ $80000. [yep, I hacked it
in!]

        My startup sequence:

FailAt 10 ;Not without the extra memory, We're not!
Setpatch
Make512K >Nil:
Addmem 80000 FFFFF
Mount VD0: Startproc ; ARP 1.3 - Startproc starts driver
Shell S/Shell-Startup ; Drew-Dillon-Borreo 3.03A Shell

        I have both the addmem that clears memory, and the one that does
not (as far as I know) - Neither makes any difference.  I will use
AddMemForever when I seek and find a couple of cold solder joints that
are still lurking (they make the memory occassionally unreliable :-) )...

        My mountlist is the one that ASDG provides, with the exception that
HighCyl is set to 31, and BufMemType is 5.

        I can mount the device, write to the device, list the device's
directory, and delete files.  But, if I try to read the files: Boom!
Read/Write errors.  The device is also _not_ recovering.

        I called ASDG, and they were unhelpful, to say the least.  Whoever
answered the phone even asked me if I had registered the product!!!  I'm
not inclined to register somthing that can't be made to work :-) .  I do not
know what Perry Kivolowitz's e-mail address is, but if anyone knows, I'd
appreciate the chance to ask him this directly.  He wasn't in when I
called.

        Hope someone can HEAAALLLPP! me....

        Steve Winokur

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