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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>
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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