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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST? -problems
- Date: 06 Mar 96 22:50:39 +0000
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- Hi, Mathew Hendry , on 05-Mar-96 01:46:59 you scribbled....
- >Mike (Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >: Whilst fastboot does what it says it does, I'm not currently using it for
- >: these reasons:
- >:
- >: 1) the diskchange command doesnt seem to work when using runback (even
- >: other versions of runback..) ..see below
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- >Works fine here.
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- >: 2) when diskchange works ...it basically makes my system useless due to
- >: assigns/paths used by workbench...
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- >I've had no problems with this either. What filesystem are you using? Assigns
- >and paths should not be affected by DiskChange. Don't you remember running
- >your old Amiga off floppies only and having to swap out the Workbench disk
- >the whole time? This is equivalent to running DiskChange. Were your assigns
- >and paths affected then?
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- AFS ;) might be the problem...I'll investigate....
-
- >: Am I right in thinking that if diskchange isnt run directly after a
- >: "fastboot" boot up, then your HD is in mortal danger the next time you
- >: write to it?
-
- >Yes.
- >could give you SERIOUS problems. SERIOUS = Munged hard disk. You don't want
-
- noteably it doesnt see devs:grabbedmemory (4 meg file :) without a diskchange
-
- >One problem I did encounter was that my disk cache program (HyperCache)
- >became unstable if I allowed it to be grabbed. This is probably obvious.
- >Putting it in FastBoot-Startup and removing it from my normal
- >Startup-Sequence fixed things. Analagous commands such as AddBuffers should
- >probably be moved to FastBoot-Startup as well, just to be safe, though I
- >suppose that they respond to disk changes properly.
-
- Um that could be it... I use hypercache with a 512k buffer , and also lots of
- addbuffers....
-
- >I also added a command to FastBoot-Startup to copy the contents of ENVARC: to
- >ENV: - I don't want to have to do a new grab every time an ENV: setting is
- >changed. I used "Copy ENVARC:~(Sys) ALL QUIET" so that screen mode prefs etc.
-
- erm why would you need a new grab? diskchange should take care of that?
-
- >Another problem I had was the virus, of course, but then I _always_ check
- >archives for viruses before using them, particularly when those programs
- >claim to cut boot times down to 3 seconds ;)
-
- What does the virus actually do? I scrubbed it before it did anything ;)
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- Mike
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