Mounting real CF eats up a lot of RAM - Page 5

Amiga1992 · 05 August 2015, 16:16

I realized I can't use add44k. Why? Because if you execute it when an AmigaDOS windows is not displayed, it crashes. I remember having this problem before and driving me crazy.

And correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that not opening the AmigaDOS screen would also save a few KB.

Amiga1992 · 30 June 2016, 16:06

Going back to this topic for a bit..
Would the size of the partition affect the amount of memory it takes up when mounting it? Thinking about making a really small boot partition if it does.

Jope · 10 July 2016, 07:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akira

Going back to this topic for a bit..
Would the size of the partition affect the amount of memory it takes up when mounting it? Thinking about making a really small boot partition if it does.

Yeah, set all your additional partitions to not automount, use giggledisk to make a mountlist for them.

It depends more on the amount of buffers per device than the partition size.

idrougge · 10 July 2016, 20:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jope

Yeah, set all your additional partitions to not automount, use giggledisk to make a mountlist for them.

Why would you need a mountlist? Aren't non-autobooted partitions still mountable just by issuing "mount DH9:"?

Jope · 10 July 2016, 20:26

No, you need a mountlist or dosdriver for the mount command.

There are also tools that can read the rdb and mount your partitions without a mountlist, I think scsimounter might do the trick.

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05 August 2015, 16:16	#81
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	I realized I can't use add44k. Why? Because if you execute it when an AmigaDOS windows is not displayed, it crashes. I remember having this problem before and driving me crazy. And correct me if I am wrong, but I always thought that not opening the AmigaDOS screen would also save a few KB.

30 June 2016, 16:06	#82
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,646	Going back to this topic for a bit.. Would the size of the partition affect the amount of memory it takes up when mounting it? Thinking about making a really small boot partition if it does.

10 July 2016, 20:26	#85
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,879	No, you need a mountlist or dosdriver for the mount command. There are also tools that can read the rdb and mount your partitions without a mountlist, I think scsimounter might do the trick.

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