Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!pro-beagle.cts.com!mattr From: mattr@pro-beagle.cts.com (Matt Reimer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: RE: GS RAM disk Message-ID: <8812022016.AA20309@crash.cts.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 19:22:53 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-beagle!mattr@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 When the Control Panel settings are not the same, memory for the RAM disk is allocated on an as-needed basis. If the RAM disk needs to expand but there's not enough memory, it returns a bad block error. What happens when you're trying to copy a bunch of files with the Finder is that the Finder reads a many of the files as it can into memory, and then writes them to disk. Now when it tries to write them to the RAM disk, there may not be enough memory to enlarge the RAM disk, so a bad block error is returned. This problem won't show up if you have lots of RAM or you copy a smaller amount of data at one time. Also, once the RAM disk allocates memory it is not released, so once the RAM disk reaches its maximum size this problem won't show up. Matt Reimer mattr (pro-beagle)