Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!atux01!perry From: perry@atux01.UUCP (Perry S. Kivolowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: can I get some info on vd0:? Message-ID: <493@atux01.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 08:28:20 EDT Article-I.D.: atux01.493 Posted: Thu Jul 16 08:28:20 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 06:56:23 EDT References: <132@usl> Organization: erehwon Lines: 26 Keywords: vd0: Summary: Fish Disk 58 In article <132@usl>, prm@usl (Patrick Royce Michaud) writes: > Can someone give me a little more background concerning the various references > to the "vd0:" device? From what I've been able to glean from the previous > messages, vd0: sounds like a specialized form of ramdisk (an alternative to The ASDG Recoverable Ram Disk (the real name for ``VD0:'') is available on Fish Disk 58. The driver is shareware with a suggested donation of $10. The RRD does in fact set up a ram disk which will survive guru's, resets, and even changes in kickstarts (if you can do it without powering down). > My expansion ram is a 1-Meg Microbotics Starboard-2. Yes, I know that > Microbotics advertises a "sticky disk" for approx $100, but (FLAME-->) I had It is interesting to note that while the ASDG RRD is now just about coming to its First Birthday (yup - almost a year ago that I wrote it), the above offering (which was advertised BEFORE the RRD was even written) has still to see the light of day. > prm@usl.usl.edu.UUCP Ummmm. They had your machine for six months? Is that what you're saying? Perry S. Kivolowitz ASDG Incorporated (201) 563-0529