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DRIVE(1) DICTIONARY DRIVE(1)
DRIVE
The drives or disk drives are the name given to the devices that
can read and write onto floppy disks. The Amiga can have up to 4
floppy disk drives connected to it. They are called DF0: DF1: DF2:
and DF3: .
The amiga also has memory based drives, called RAM drives. RAM
drives are very much like disk drives except that they do not
correspond to any physical device but rather simulate them by
software. Directories and files can be stored onto them like on
ordinary drives, but rather than being written onto a floppy disk,
they are written in memory (this is where the name comes from.)
The advantage of RAM drives is that they are much faster, the
disadvantage being that they use a lot of memory and that they lose
all their content when the Amiga is switched off. For these reasons,
they are used mainly to store temporary or frequently accessed files.
The two most common RAM drives are RAM: and RAD: . RAM: grows in
size as files are stored on it. RAD: has a fixed size, but survives
after rebooting (but not after switching the power off!)
SEE ALSO:
DISK, Ram, Devices.