Ram disk is not large enough for Xcopy.adf

[AmigaEd]

Hello,
I'm still struggling with this.

I've aquired the xcopy.adf. I compressed the file and have transfered the xcopy.lzh over to the A1000 from my PC using Wartrans.

I try to decompress the xcopy.lzh to the ram disk and it seems to run out of memory. I have a 2meg Microbotics Starboard attached, so I am surprised to find that the ram disk tops out at +512K.

So my question is, what is the best way to get the adf's extracted on to a1000 so that I can use adfblitzer or something similar to put these images back on to a floppy?

Thank you,
AmigaEd
 
 

[AmigaEd]

by SHADES on 2005/2/3 0:40:18

Why can't you just transfer the adf file non compressed?
surely a terminal program could do that via the serial port.

The A1000 running the Wartrans AmigaBasic program will apparently only do 9600 baud reliably. I compressed the file because the uncompressed version would take hours to transfer.

thenu could just save it to RAM and do what you like. wouldn't be over 900K for a Low density disk.

As I stated above the the RAM: disk device appears to run out of memory at or just above 512K.

If it's a high density image, you may have problems. My AMIGA has a highdensity drive that stores 1.96Mb per floppy.

The xcopy adf image is a standard image of 880k.

There just has to be a way to make this work... It sure seems simple... extract an 880k adf image from an archive and then put it on a floppy disk using ADF2DISK or ADFBlitzer.

-AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

by Varthall on 2005/2/3 3:42:20

Try zipping the adf, instead of compressing it with lha/lzh. Adfblitzer should (or an equivalent program) support zipped adfs (the so-called adz files).

I started looking into your idea...

I have since discovered that I can't get adfblitzer to run on the A1000. It crashes the whole system and I mean in an ugly way. Even kills the video output.

Anyway, I'll checkout ADF2Disk later tonight and see if that will work with adz files.

Or perhaps, someone reading this thread has this knowledge anf can guide me in what i need to do.

-AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Try and make a text file that is 950K in your ram: disk.

I gave your idea a try... it freezes the machine right up when I get up in the 650K range.

Which version of AOS are you using?

I am using Workbench 1.3

When you say 2 Megs., is it 2 Megs + 256K? Do you have 256 K or 512 K of chip ram?

I beleive that I have 512k of chip ram in this system. I have an attached Microbotics Starboard expansion module on the side of it. I believe that this is populate to 2 meg.

I can't beelive how much I have forgotten about all of this!

Does anyone remember if there is a command that I can run to see what the ram config is?

Regards,
AmigaEd

[AmigaEd]

Thanks DethKnight. I actually had just figured that out about two minutes before I read your post.

I think I'm going to have to try to find a utility to test the ram. I'm starting to think that I've got a bit stuck somewhere.

Regards,
AmigaEd