Re: RamDisk technical query

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From: Darin Adler
Date: Mon, 27 May 1985 21:48

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> I'm trying to understand what makes a Mac ramdisk "eject-proof." ...
> 
> ... I've examined the drive queue and the volume control block queue in some
> detail and been unable to find any useful difference between these two
> ramdisks ...
> 
> ...  Can anyone shed some light, or point me to an especially
> enlightening passage in Inside Mac (loose-leaf edition)?
> 

The useful information is on pages 62 and 63 of the File Manager Programmer's
Guide (Inside Mac loose leaf 5/21/84).  In a box labeled Assembly-language note
we find the following table entry:

The first four bytes in a drive queue ...
byte 1, contents: 0=no disk in drive, 1 or 2=disk in drive, 8=NONEJECTABLE disk
		  in drive, FC-FF=disk was ejected in last 1.5 seconds.

Just stuff an 8 in there.

Darin Adler
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