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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:40:00 CST
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- From: Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Recoverable ram drives....
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- >Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:44:00 EST
- >From: RABID SPINACH <QCZUSEA%IUP.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- >Subject: Recoverable ram drives....
- >
- > Greetings,
- >
- > First, I want to say that I am not a neophyte in the ways of my Amiga,
- >and have had many fun hours 'under the hood' of my A500, as well as messing
- >around with the various cli commands, so when I started having problems getting
- >RAD: to work as a recognizable recoverable ram drive, I performed blasphemy....
- >I read the manual. I know, I know, this is sacrilege of the HIGHEST order,
- >and I confess my sins to all the readers and contributors of this list. But
- >this post is not about confession, since I STILL can't get the damn thing to
- >work!
- > Now please tell me if I am wrong, but if I issue the command:
- > 'mount RAD:'
-
- If you want your RAD: drive to be recoverable, you also have to put
- SETPATCH R into your startup sequence. This is true for 1.3 anyway,
- I do not have 2.xx.
-
- >(yes, I have checked to see if the proper mountlist file is in my mountlist in
- >the DEVS directory... :-) )
- >
- >then: 'copy df1: to RAD:'
- >
- >and THEN if I rename the 'Copy_of_XXX' to 'XXX', I should be able to do a warm
- >reboot without loosing the contents of the 'XXX' in the RAD: yes? You ask why
- I
- >am doing this little bit of hair tearing exercise? Well, it just so happens
- >that I have a game that takes more than two disks to run. Having a relative
- >plethora of RAM (1 meg chip, and two meg fast via an AdRam expansion board),
- >and only two disk drives (and no room on my paltry 20 meg HD), I decided that
- >I would simply create a copy of the game in ram and then start the game
- >normally.... Yet it seems that this is too much to ask of my stressed system
- >since it never seems to recognize the ram disk as being there and asks for the
- >offending disk to be inserted into 'any drive' when it SHOULD be in a virtual
- >disk already! My system, you ask?
- > A500 rev. 6a
- > AdRam 540 w/2.5 meg
- > the Fatter Agnus (one meg version)
- > Novia 20i internal 2.5" 20 meg HD
- > one external 3.5" FD
- > WB 2.04
- >
- > Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am getting tired of SWITCHING
- >disks all the time!!!
- >*******************************************************************************
- *
- >"An intellectual is an educated person |Rabid Spinach
- >who can't do arithmetic with his |(AKA: Erik Blank)
- >shoes on, and is proud of his lack." |(Bitnet:QCZUSEA@IUP)
- > - Robert A. Heinlein |(Internet:QCZUSEA@GROVE.IUP.EDU)
- >===============================================================================
- =
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- -Lance
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