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Offline DiskChrisTopic starter

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Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« on: October 11, 2013, 12:54:35 AM »
So whenever I plug in my hard drive, half of my 1 MB of chip is gone, even when booting from floppy so its not that the wb copy on the HD is loaded with garbage......If I disconnect the drive and leave the card installed (oktagon 2008) it comes back, so its not the card consuming the ram.
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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2013, 12:56:19 AM »
Too many disk buffers? That dont make sense
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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2013, 01:13:34 AM »
Yeah I dont know...And thats booting straight from floppy so Im not even accessing it...I never have formatted the thing since I got it...maybe its loading something?? The drive is 500 mb. I know gigamem is installed on it I dont know if that has anything to do with it...
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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2013, 01:16:36 AM »
Check the addbuffers command. How many partitions are on the drive?
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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2013, 01:22:07 AM »
open HD toolbox and tell us what the buffers are..
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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2013, 01:25:52 AM »
Yup.. above posters are right...  partition(s) and buffers problem. Too many will impact greatly on chipram.

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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2013, 07:12:12 AM »
I second...or is it third or fourth?...the above opinions.

Had a similar problem a few years back. Forget exactly how I solved it...but it was related to too much buffer and the fact it was allocated in chip ram not fast ram
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Re: Hard Drive Eating Up Chip RAM?
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2013, 12:31:10 AM »
Yup it was the buffers...all 399 of them!!
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