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- Recoverable ( and bootable) Ram Disk
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- Copyrights (C) 1990 - Bob Dayley and The Other Guys
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- This program may be freely distributed as long as this document is
- included unchanged with the program. Distribution includes uploads, PD disk
- distribution, giving to your friends, and releases with commercial products.
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- Any release of this program without this document is considered an
- infringement of copyright.
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- This program is a recoverable ram disk. Yes, another one! The difference
- between this and other PD disk is that it supports up to 32 units and can be
- auto-booted in Kickstart 1.3. The extra units allow you to mount one
- bootable device (which must be a normal DOS unit) and another unit for your
- work which can use the FastFileSystem. You might even mount a third unit for
- fast disk copies, if you have the memory.
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- This ram disk differs from RAD: in that unused sectors are deleted from
- memory, therefore, you won't be tying up valuable memory with empty junk.
- This ram disk may be formatted, copied to, or used just like a normal disk
- drive. Your LED light will flash on and off as ram disk activity occurs.
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- To install:
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- 1. Copy the file 'ramdisk.device' to your DEVS: directory.
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- 2. Edit your DEVS:mountlist and include one or more entries similiar
- to the mountlist included with this distribution.
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- 3. Mount your device. (mount BOOT:) etc.
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- 4. The device is already to use. It does NOT need to be formatted,
- although you may format it if you want to clear the disk (and see
- how fast it formats!)
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- NOTE: This disk is cannot be mounted with RAD:. They are very incompatable!
- Do not 'mount RAD:' if you are going to mount any units which use this
- device. (We tried to get it to be compatable, but there seems to be
- a bug or something not documented in 1.3 with SumKickData().)
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- To create a bootable device, use an entry similiar to the BOOT: entry in
- the included mountlist and copy your various startup directorys and
- sequences over to the ram disk. There is no need to install BOOT: as it
- always writes the bootblock to DOS as a Commodore bootblock (in other words,
- it is virus-proof!)
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- Also, there are flags to control whether or not each unit is recoverable,
- DiskCopy-able, and/or auto-mounting. These flags are described in the
- included mountlist.
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- Enjoy!
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- The Other Guys supports Amiga developers!
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- Also, The Other Guys is always accepting software submissions for
- commercial release. If you have written a program you think can be marketed
- commercially, please contact us at address or phone number below.
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- Bob Dayley
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- Author - Synthia, Synthia II,
- Synthia Pro, Promise, etc.
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- The Other Guys
- 55 North Main St. Suite 301D
- PO Box H
- Logan,Ut 84321
- USA
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- 800-942-9402 - Submissions, Catalogs, Orders.
- 801-753-7620 - Anything else!
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- Quick Installation Of RRAMDISK
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- NOTE: RRAMDISK stands for Recoverable Ram Disk. This means that anything
- you copy into it can be recovered, and will still be there even if you
- have to reboot! Not only this, but this particular ram disk acts JUST
- LIKE a real floppy disk drive. No other RAM disks act this way.
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- INSTALLATION
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- This installation procedure will allow you to quickly install this
- RRAMDISK without significantly altering your current Workbench
- configuration.
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- 1. Type from CLI:
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- COPY AX34.2:MOUNTLIST DEVS:MOUNTLIST.RAM
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- This will copy the mountlist without destroying your
- original mounstlist.
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- 2. Type from CLI:
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- COPY AX34.2:RAMDISK.DEVICE DEVS:
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- This installs the ramdisk device on your workbench.
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- 3. Type from CLI:
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- MOUNT FROM DEVS:MOUNTLIST.RAM BOOT:
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- This is the actual command that activates the ramdisk. If you do
- this often, you may want to add this same line into your startup-
- sequence which can be found in directory S: of your Workbench disk.
- If your current startup-sequence mounts RAD: Commodore's much less
- powerful ramdisk, then you must remove the line that mounts it.
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- All the startup-sequence editing can be done from any wordprocessor
- that works in ASCII. NOT WordPerfect, Excellence! or ProWrite.
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- Enjoy, this is truly a powerful and useful utility.
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