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- From: wmaddock@icon-stl.net (William F. Maddock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: RAD is chip mem only for me!
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 21:51:25 GMT
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- On 12-Jan-96 21:03:30 sjkonowa@freenet.columbus.oh.us Scott Konowal wrote:
-
- >First, make sur you are mounting RAD: from your mountlist. Next, check
- >for an entry under RAD: in you mountlist like this:
-
- > BufMemType = <n>
-
- ><n> is a number between 0-5.
-
- > 0 or 1 = Any (chip or fast)
- > 2 or 3 = CHIP
- > 4 or 5 = FAST
-
- Nope. Doesn't work.
-
- >Obviously, if you want RAD: to use FAST ram, Change or add this line and
- >set it to 4 or 5
-
- Dave and I both have accellerators. I would guess that his as mine, fails to
- mark the fast RAM as KICK RAM. If this is the case, and the board cannot be
- reconfigured to set KICK RAM, then we're out of luck. The ramdrive.device only
- uses memory marked as KICK RAM.
-
- >Dave Jackson (dj@coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: Does anyone know why this is? Is it not possible to have a RAD disk in
- >: fast RAM. I've mucked about with the mountlist entry for it, but no joy.
- >: My system is:
-
- >: A1200
- >: 80 meg HD
- >: 5 meg fast (2 meg chip)
- >: Blizzard 2 40MHz '030 + 40MHz '882
- >: + other non relevant h/w (or is it!?)
-
- >: Can someone post (or email me) their RAD: mountlist entry so I can check
- >: it?
-
- >: Dave Jackson
-
-
- >--
- > Scott Konowal | AMIGA /// | A1200,'030/'882/50MHz
- >sjkonowa@freenet.columbus.oh.us | /// | 2MChip/4MFast/14.4bps
- > | \\\ /// | Baltimore Browns?
- >PGP pub. key avail. upon request | \\/// | F#@% Modell!
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