Re: Recoverable ram disk

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From: Kurt Koller
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1990 05:19

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>before weirdness set in.  Along the way, I also discovered that my rad: 
>device was coming out of CHIP RAM!!!!!  No matter how big this sucker is, I
>definitely want it in FAST ram.  BTW, I tried inserting
>"SYS:system/FastMemFirst" as the first line, but it changed nothing.  Can
>anybody (please?) tell me how to make my rad: come from fast ram?

If in yur mountlist there is a line like "BufMemType=3" change it to 
"BufMemType=1"
 
This specifies public ram rather than chip.  A value of '5' would specify fast
Ram only, and would die if it was run on a system without it.

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