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The good news...

I don't know if this will help, but "Compute!'s Atari ST" magazine
Issue 5, Vol 2, No.3 provided a recoverable RAM disk which recovered
from system crashes 90% of the time. Mag/disk provided both .TOS and
.S files. It was totally configurable for size, drive name, and files
to copy to the RAM disk. I used it from the time it came out on my
1040 ST till I switched to a Mega ST2... 

...the bad news...

Except this gem of a program which was to be the corner stone of my
development environment (1M recoverable RAM disk, wow!) does NOT
work on the MEGA ST2 (gasp!!). What seems to happen is this, the disk
sets up just fine from cold boot, but when you attempt to reset the
system after a crash, the RAM disk program says it recovered 
(which I have determined to be true because a tool I have says the
system is short 1M of memory after the reset) BUT fails to connect 
the RAM disk with the GEM icon for that disk. As to whether or not the
RAM disk's data is intact, I have not been able to verify since I
can't access it.

I've been meaning to write the magazine and tell them to notify the
author and/or have a look at the code myself but haven't as yet had
time to play with it. 

Maybe *hint, nudge, poke, beat with large stick* if someone else 
could take a look at this fine program that doesn't seem to work 
to specs on MEGAs (grrrr) it might be possible to fix a bug or 
create a MEGA version. The magazine copyright does not allow me to
pass the source around :-(

- Ant
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achowe@trillium.waterloo.edu

note: my nickname is for the fact that I eat a lot of "CrackerJack" candy
and is not ment to suggest that I walk around wearing a patch, wooden leg
while waving a sabre, raping large buxom women and sucking back kegs of
rum faster than engineers can demolish 40 beers :) 

"The definition of flying: throwing yourself at the ground and missing."
		- Douglas Adam's  "Life, the Universe and Everything"