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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)