[Coco] myram.dr

coco at jechar.ca coco at jechar.ca
Mon Sep 21 11:18:18 EDT 2020


My source was the latest Nitros build disk 80 track DD for real cocos or 
emulators.
It does not have documentation, probably because so much is being jammed 
on a 720K
disk. Thanks I will check your website.

On 2020-09-21 10:51, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 21 September 2020 10:27:38 coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> 
>>   Does anyone know where I would find the documentation for the myram
>>   ramdisk driver and descriptor so I can set up a ramdisk.
>> 
>>   Charlie
> 
> I wrote that long ago.
> 
> Is there not a README in that file?
> 
> Basically you add both the driver and the descriptor to your boot file.
> The descriptors comments should tell you what to do with /r0, using
> dmode to set its size in 8k blocks.  Its self formating on the first
> access which takes a few milliseconds, then its ready for use. To
> recover ALL the memory it uses, deiniz it.  Every byte is released.
> Usable on a 512k machine, but really gets up to full power on a 2 meg
> disto equipt machine like mine was/is.  Its died, I suspect from dried
> out caps, as it wasn't turned off for 30 years unless the power went
> out.
> 
> That README still exists on my web page in the sig, help yourself.  
> Under
> os9-stf IIRC.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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