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From: oliver@thelink.UUCP (Joel Sumner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RAM Disk
Summary: Finder Woes....
Message-ID: <147@thelink.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 20:50:23 GMT
References: <8806222315.aa01473@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>
Organization: TheLink-Public Access Unix, South Bend, IN.
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In article <8806222315.aa01473@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA>, AXDJW@ALASKA.BITNET (David Wreggit) writes:
> As was pointed out some time ago, Paintworks Gold doesn't like a RAM disk
> set up in memory when it is running.  Several reseting options have been
> presented, but the easiest way (with no problems that I've ever encountered)
> involves setting up a maximum RAM disk size of 800K (or whatever) and a
> minimum RAM disk size of 0K.  This way the OS can create a RAM disk if
> appropriate, or ignore it and have free access to the extra memory.
> Dave.


Small Problem with that approach if you want to use the finder (there may be
other applications with problems but the finder is the only one I have
heard)..... The Finder will get disk errors if you try to copy a group of 
files to the RAMdisk.

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