Ram disk is not large enough for Xcopy.adf

[Atheist]

Hi AmigaEd,

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

Use the "join" command in the shell to make a big ascii file.

Or use Memacs, and copy block, until it exceeds 900K, and then save it to ram:.

Be careful to not go much above 900K though, as a copy of the file is in regular ram, as well as OS overhead and the program itself, using up ram.

This is to test if there is a glitch in your ram handling by the OS.

Maybe it's not configured properly, not a contigous address space, from motherboard ram to the ram card? But what do I know, never had an A1000. Which version of AOS are you using?

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

[Atheist]

AmigaEd wrote:

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.

Hi AmigaEd,

I've had the higher than 9600 baud, data loss, problem before, on my A2000 @ 7.12 MHz.

I was able to get data at 19,200, only when transferring a file, but NOT displaying the text on the screen, as I was receiving it (through a modem, on a phone line). Oh wait, it was at 14,400. I never had a 19,200 baud modem, but I think it would work. What I was doing was getting all the text messages from usenet, from the last time I was on, and it was displaying them on screen, and saving to ram. It couldn't display, and save fast enough. But when I requested it transfer as a file, to be opened later, I had no problem. The program I was using (Ncomm) was compiled, not Basic. Probably, basic is too slow, Amiga Basic, is uncompiled, to boot.


Maybe Amiga Basic hits a barrier at 512 K (who needs more than 640, right?)! It's another fine crap ms-dos product, after all!!!!


.adf files can be broken down into pieces, when they're made, I believe. Make 2 440K files, and use the "join" command to put them back together.