Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!apoy 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. Lines: 18 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