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Recoverable Ram

    10-May-93 06:35:04
Sb: #99014-Recoverable Ram
Fm: Ed Martin 71001,2262
To: Dave Park 70004,1764
VD0: has been on my A1200 for 6 weeks or so, and has not (as far as I can tell) been responsible for any unhappy events whatsoever. Now, I don't move any startup stuff over to it and use it as a fast rebooter (the A1200 is so quick to boot-up/re-boot with a harddrive, and so seldom crashes to need re-booting that it just didn't seem worth the effort or time to set it up to re-boot) so I can't give it a 100% clean bill of health. But as a recoverable RAM disk, it's as good as it ever was… Early on (even before WB2) I had trouble with some versions of VD0: and had to find the original (FF#58). When WB2 came out, I got a newer version of the program portion that goes in DEVS: called vdisk.device, here on CIS. That combo (old mountlist entry modified to name vdisk.device, and new vdisk.device in DEVS: ) with "mount vd0:" and "cd vd0:" in my user-startup script seems to work just fine for me. I haven't searched the CIS files for the vdisk.device program, so it may be here, but if it isn't, I think I can pack it up with LZ and upload it if you want. Ditto the version of asdg-rrd that worked for me. — Ed (In Nawth NH) — [via AP!]