[Coco] Using that 16/32/64 MB RamDrive.
Robert Gault
robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Fri Feb 6 04:27:10 EST 2004
Paul T. Barton wrote:
> Mark,
>
> It took 22 minutes to FORMAT. It punched out
> the sector numbers no matter if VFY=1
> or VFY=0, didn't matter. I tried my older
> FORMAT the one where all numbers go
> into the same screen location and tried the
> FORMAT that came with l2v320, no difference
> in numbers displayed.
>
> Something else, NitrOS-9 crashed while
> I was doing a /r0 fillup. Since there's
> auto-refresh (cas before ras) always in
> all banks of DRAM,
> I could reboot, iniz r0, format /r0 until
> it started making numbers then I ^C'd it.
> DIR /r0 still showed all files intact!
> And I went on with the fillup.
>
>
> Amazing,
> Paul
Why would you need the iniz or format? If the data was still intact on
the ram disk, it would be no different than reading any other data disk
and they don't require iniz or format before reading.
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