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From: apoy@caen.engin.umich.edu (Alfred Lim Poy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS Ram Disk
Message-ID: <40010336.f08b@frosh.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 88 00:20:00 GMT
References: <0XYS30y00V45NO5Vc-@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <0XYS30y00V45NO5Vc-@andrew.cmu.edu>, by da1n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel K. Appelquist):
> Why does the Ram disk always who bad blocks when you set the maximum and minumum
> values differently?  The only way my ramdisk is usuable is if the max and min
> are set exactly the same. Any other configuration leads to "bad blocks."  Any
> theories or suggestions?
> 

I've run into the same problem.  When I select a group of files to be 
copied into the ram disk,  the first 100K or so will copy ok but then
the finder comes back with a bad block or system error.  I usually
have the min at 0 and the max at 256 (but it happens with the max
higher also).  This happened with both System 3.1 and 4.0 so I don't
think the problem is GS/OS.  I just tried setting both min and max
at 256 and tried to copy 7 files of 150K total into ram5 ( done by
selecting all 7 at the same time).  Guess what: It worked fine !!!!!
Confused? Me too.

                                 Al Poy