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

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Fri Feb 6 17:32:01 EST 2004


Theodore (Alex) Evans wrote:

> 
> On Feb 5, 2004, at 11:22 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> PS. I think that is what you should see. 2^25=33,554,432 and 2^26 = 
>> 67,108,864 so the power of 2 closest to 64Meg is really 67Meg. If that 
>> is not the size of the Nocan64 let me know.
> 
> 
> I think his figures were accurate.  64M is $4000000 bytes or $40000 
> sectors, but he didn't use the whole 64M for a ram disk, but rather 
> $2000 (8192) sectors short of that or exactly 62M.  Presumably the other 
> 2M is being used for the main memory of OS-9.
> 
> 

Theodore if the "he" refers to me, that is exactly what I did, make the 
RAM disk ignore the 2 Megs used by OS-9. If the "he" refers to Paul, 
Paul did not write the code for rammer.

I could not tell from Paul's comment if a question was implied. The 
statement missing the (?) is much like a question.




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