[Coco] Using that 16/32/64 MB RamDrive.

[Theodore Evans (Alex)]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:58 PM, Paul T. Barton wrote:

> Robert,
>
> I get $03E000 good sectors for a full
> ~62mb ramdisk. For a size of
> ($3E000 * 256) 65,011,712 bytes.
>
> Also, I noticed that there's no "busy"
> bit anywhere so it may be disastrous if
> I go to a second window and do a dir /r0
> while the first window is writing to /r0.
> What about V.BUSY can this be
> used effectively?

I can see why this would seem to be a problem, but assuming that this 
ramdisk is accessed via the RBF man it shouldn't be an issue.  It 
generally isn't on floppy disks and hard drives.  In fact under OS-9 I 
have read a file as it was being written many times.