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- This is the ASDG recoverable ramdisk (also known as VD0:)
-
- This is the latest version as of July 14, 1989.
-
- New features are:
- * Upto 8Meg VD0:
- * ReWritten in Assembly (faster)
- * 1/3 the size (Used to be 6604
-
- To use it read in instructions in the file 'mountlist' and
- edit that file you reflect MAXIMUM size recoverable ramdisk
- you want. VD0: does NOT use all the ram you specfiy. That
- size specification just tells VD0: the most memory it is
- allowed to use. It is better to fill up VD0: then to run out
- of memory.
-
- To install VD0: you must add this 'mountlist' to the
- 'mountlist' in your devs: directory. You can do this by going
- to the CLI, setting the currect directory (CDing) to the
- directory with the ASDG-VD0: files in it and typing.
-
- join devs:mountlist mountlist as RAM:mountlist
- copy ram:mountlist devs:mountlist
-
- Then you must add the line
-
- mount VD0:
-
- to your startup-sequence. Mounting VD0: won't actually start
- it up until you try to access VD0: so I usually put these two
- lines in my startup-sequence
-
- mount VD0:
- cd VD0:
-
- You also need to copy the file 'asdg.vdisk.device' to your
- devs: directory.
-
- copy asdg.vdisk.device devs:
-
- That should be all. Just reboot.
-
- Some tips:
-
- VD0: will work with RAD: (just mount RAD: first) The
- advantage to this is that IF you are using 1.3 KickStart you
- can create a small RAD: (just large enough to hold what you
- need to re-boot your system.) And then you use VD0: for the
- rest of your recoverable ram disk. VD0: only uses the memory
- it needs to unlike RAD: which uses all the memory you specify.
- This means you will have more memory free with this
- arrangement then with just using RAD: and you will still be
- able to BOOT from RAD:
-
- You can make VD0: "act as RAM:" by puting the following lines in your
- startup-sequence
-
- mount VD0:
- cd VD0:
- Relabel VD0: RAM
- DiskChange VD0:
-
- This way, all your programs that access RAM: will actually
- access VD0:
-
-
- Other Files include in the ZOO are
-
- SysMon - Show you system performance information.
- DeleteRamDisk - After running this you will lose all the
- information in VD0: next time you reboot.
- (Similar to RemRad for RAD:)
- CleanRamDisk - Tells VD0: to freeup any memory it is
- no longer using. (This happens
- automatically every so often.)
- FastMem - Allocates all your systems Fast Memory.
- Run it again and it will release it.
- (Used for very old programs that have a
- problem with fast memory)
-