Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!sgi!scotth@harlie.SGI.COM From: scotth@harlie.SGI.COM (Scott Henry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ami crashes, RAD: Message-ID: <22935@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 23:54:59 GMT References: <27024@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Distribution: na Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 45 From article <27024@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student): > Help! I have been having serious problems! > > My Amiga has been crashing CONSTANTLY lately, starting about the time I > got 1.3. When it does, I will be flipping thru screens and an interlaced >[... stuff deleted...] > I am running an interlaced, overscan (671x470) workbench, if this is of any > help. It seems to me that the delacing forewarns of the crash, so there > ought to be a way to remedy the problem. I am also using SetAlert in my > startup sequence, an boot up with either KS1.2 or KS1.3 (it has crashed > with both) I have also had this problem, and a similar hardware configuration, BUT, it has only happened once to me, Though I don't use Diga! or MWB. > 2) RAD: >[... second question deleted as I don't know the answer...] > > 3) How can I get 2 recoverable ram disks? Experimentation shows that 2 RADs > don't get along at all. Even RAD: and VD0: don't like each other. BOOM! > My Idea is: I want to run Rocket Ranger entirely from ram. since RR uses its > own disk-fetching code, it won't work with RAM:. I found that I can diskcopy > one disk to RAD: to speed it up considerably; but I want NO WAITING, PERIOD! I have figured out how to make RAD: and VD0: co-exist. It is actually fairly simple: when you first load up the system from a cold boot, VD0: must be loaded first, AND it must have stuff in it (MORE THAN one cylinder's worth of data) BEFORE you mount RAD: for the first time (ie: create it). I copy a small directory's worth of stuff (~6 files, >= 60k) into VD0:, mount RAD:, copy stuff into RAD:, delete the stuff I copied into VD0:. This has worked for me for several weeks (except for run-away programs that have clobbered either/both of RAD and VD0). BTW, I only use a small (9 cylinder) RAD for auto-booting my hard-drive (also a StarDrive). I recently saw a posting about how to make 2 RAD: disks co-exist in memory at the same time, you might look through recent posting history. > Thanks > -Vincent H. Lee You're welcome, Scott Henry -- Scott Henry{or, also on the Internet:} #include