Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug
From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug "It's A Feature" Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VD0: Quandry...
Message-ID: <349@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 89 17:19:07 GMT
References: <16276@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug "It's A Feature" Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <16276@louie.udel.EDU> CJMEYERS%SUNRISE.BITNET@suvm.acs.syr.edu writes:

>        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

Considering that vd0: is a well made and robust piece of software,
and that clearly your problems have to do with something either in
your flakey hardware, or possibly in your startup-sequence (which violates
ASDG's instructions to mount vd0: before doing other stuff), I don't
blame them.

It's worked fine for me and for friends of mine for years. I don't
use "make512K" and don't know what it does, but I suggest you try vd0:
on a vanilla startup-sequence that follows their recommendations.
Also why don't you try using the standard mountlist entry instead of
trying your own modifications before you can get vd0: to work at all!

It's really astonishing that people don't bother to try recommended
installation procedures, and then complain when their ill-thought-out
mods don't work. Being methodical goes a long way.

Final suggestion: just buy AmigaDOS 1.3 and use the recoverable ram
disk that comes with it.

>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!!

That's just too bad...my experience is that it is close to impossible
to mail to someone on bitnet (from Usenet). I quit trying over a year ago.
For this sort of reason, it's considered both wise and polite to
stay tuned to a group long enough to see posted answers. You can always
use some kind of software tool to search for only the subject lines that
address your question, after all. I realize you don't have 'rn' but
there's always *some* way.
	Doug
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