Re: Is there a recoverable RAM disk for the Mac?

Article View: comp.sys.mac

Article #20695

#20695

From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1987 21:17

15 lines
1304 bytes

In article <691@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rothberg@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Edward Rothberg) writes:
>
>The header pretty much says it all.  I'm sick of RamStart.  One small
>bug in a program and boom, the ram disk is gone.  Does anyone sell
>a RAM disk which can survive a system error?  When I say survive, I mean
>that it should do some sort of check to make sure that its data wasn't
>corrupted (ie a checksum).  Any leads?

MacMemory makes something called MaxSave (costs about $70) that plugs in
where the roms are (and then you plug the roms into it).  I think all it
does is prevent the roms from clearing (testing?) that part of memory
used for a ram disk -- so the ram disk appears on the desktop when you
reboot.

- Steve

Technical Details

Message-ID: <193@esquire.UUCP>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!esquire!sbb

References: <691@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is there a recoverable RAM disk for the Mac?
Message-ID: <193@esquire.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 16:17:38 EST
Article-I.D.: esquire.193
Posted: Fri Oct 23 16:17:38 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 18:44:59 EST
References: <691@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
Lines: 15
Keywords: RAM disk

Reply to Parent Message