Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!ndmath!thelink!oliver 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. Lines: 21 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------| | oliver@thelink.UUCP |AT&T (219) 291-8343| GEnie K.SUMNER [Joel] | | (Joel Sumner) |----------------------------------------------------| |USnail 1505 Sheffield Ct. | It is always darkest before the lights go out | | South Bend, IN 46614| | !--------------------------------------------------------------------------!