Recoverable ( and bootable) Ram Disk Copyrights (C) 1990 - Bob Dayley and The Other Guys This program may be freely distributed as long as this document is included unchanged with the program. Distribution includes uploads, PD disk distribution, giving to your friends, and releases with commercial products. Any release of this program without this document is considered an infringement of copyright. This program is a recoverable ram disk. Yes, another one! The difference between this and other PD disk is that it supports up to 32 units and can be auto-booted in Kickstart 1.3. The extra units allow you to mount one bootable device (which must be a normal DOS unit) and another unit for your work which can use the FastFileSystem. You might even mount a third unit for fast disk copies, if you have the memory. This ram disk differs from RAD: in that unused sectors are deleted from memory, therefore, you won't be tying up valuable memory with empty junk. This ram disk may be formatted, copied to, or used just like a normal disk drive. Your LED light will flash on and off as ram disk activity occurs. To install: 1. Copy the file 'ramdisk.device' to your DEVS: directory. 2. Edit your DEVS:mountlist and include one or more entries similiar to the mountlist included with this distribution. 3. Mount your device. (mount BOOT:) etc. 4. The device is already to use. It does NOT need to be formatted, although you may format it if you want to clear the disk (and see how fast it formats!) NOTE: This disk is cannot be mounted with RAD:. They are very incompatable! Do not 'mount RAD:' if you are going to mount any units which use this device. (We tried to get it to be compatable, but there seems to be a bug or something not documented in 1.3 with SumKickData().) To create a bootable device, use an entry similiar to the BOOT: entry in the included mountlist and copy your various startup directorys and sequences over to the ram disk. There is no need to install BOOT: as it always writes the bootblock to DOS as a Commodore bootblock (in other words, it is virus-proof!) Also, there are flags to control whether or not each unit is recoverable, DiskCopy-able, and/or auto-mounting. These flags are described in the included mountlist. Enjoy! The Other Guys supports Amiga developers! Also, The Other Guys is always accepting software submissions for commercial release. If you have written a program you think can be marketed commercially, please contact us at address or phone number below. Bob Dayley Author - Synthia, Synthia II, Synthia Pro, Promise, etc. The Other Guys 55 North Main St. Suite 301D PO Box H Logan,Ut 84321 USA 800-942-9402 - Submissions, Catalogs, Orders. 801-753-7620 - Anything else! Quick Installation Of RRAMDISK NOTE: RRAMDISK stands for Recoverable Ram Disk. This means that anything you copy into it can be recovered, and will still be there even if you have to reboot! Not only this, but this particular ram disk acts JUST LIKE a real floppy disk drive. No other RAM disks act this way. INSTALLATION This installation procedure will allow you to quickly install this RRAMDISK without significantly altering your current Workbench configuration. 1. Type from CLI: COPY AX34.2:MOUNTLIST DEVS:MOUNTLIST.RAM This will copy the mountlist without destroying your original mounstlist. 2. Type from CLI: COPY AX34.2:RAMDISK.DEVICE DEVS: This installs the ramdisk device on your workbench. 3. Type from CLI: MOUNT FROM DEVS:MOUNTLIST.RAM BOOT: This is the actual command that activates the ramdisk. If you do this often, you may want to add this same line into your startup- sequence which can be found in directory S: of your Workbench disk. If your current startup-sequence mounts RAD: Commodore's much less powerful ramdisk, then you must remove the line that mounts it. All the startup-sequence editing can be done from any wordprocessor that works in ASCII. NOT WordPerfect, Excellence! or ProWrite. Enjoy, this is truly a powerful and useful utility.