Re: RAM disks

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Sorry, I should have been more specific.

I'm using a IIe card in a MacLCII which sets aside a user-configurable
portion of the LCII memory as a RAM drive.

Version of CopyIIPlus is 8.4.


"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> Frank Townsend writes ...
> >
> > Any way to make a RAM disk look like a 800k 3.5 drive?
> >
> > Doesn't seem to work with CopyIIPlus.  I'm trying to make a disk image
and
> > thought a RAM disk would work faster as a source drive for the disk, but
> > can't seem to do a diskcopy of an 800k disk to the RAM drive to make
this
> > work.
> >
>  ....
>
>      An 800k RAM disk is a great way to save time in all sorts of ways.
Our
> IIgs has had an 800k /RAM5 set up for years.
>
>      Making a disk copy to /RAM5 is easy under the Finder; and, as you
say,
> access is much speedier than to a 3.5" diskette.
>
>      The problem with Copy II Plus indicates that you are using version
9.x.
> These versions (9.0, 9.1, ...) of Copy II Plus are not compatible with the
> standard IIgs RAM disk. This (plus a dangerous CATALOG bug in v9.0) helps
to
> explain why the 9.x series is generally avoided.
>
>      If you want to use Copy II Plus for 3.5" disk copying, try v7.4 or
v8.3.
>
>
>
> Rubywand