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Article #30774Re: RAM disks (was: small assesment of some formaters)
From: Thomas_E_Zerucha
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 01:27
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 01:27
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Reset-proofing is straightforward, but requires a warmstart, since the standard technique is to alter PHYSTOP and leave something at phystop+n to indicate there is a ramdisk actually there, then reinstall the vectors the second time through the auto folder. But then resizing becomes difficult without another warmstart, but otherwise would simply involve insuring that the latter region of the ramdisk is not being used, then adjusting the free space byte in the boot sector, moving it (and changing phystop to reflect the move - and the move would have to be bottom up), then warmstarting again.
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