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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:40:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Recoverable ram drives....

>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!!!
>*******************************************************************************
   *
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>who can't do arithmetic with his          |(AKA: Erik Blank)
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>===============================================================================
   =

Hope this helps,

-Lance
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