RAD disk content disappear after reset with Blizzard 1240

[tygre]

Dear all!

I have an Amiga 1200 + Blizzard 1240 and I can't manage to get a RAD disk to "stick" in memory. I have tried to use the RAD DOS driver "out of the box" but after each reset, the content of the RAD disk called RAM_0 (!) disappear... so much for the "recoverable" part...

I think that I am missing something there... Even though the RAD disk is created in CHIP memory, could the Blizzard impact it? I am using BlizKick v1.24 with the following modules (in that order):
- PrepareEmul
- FixMath404
- ColdResetCard
- DosResetCard
- LocalFast
The parameters of BlizKick are EXTRESBUF=4096 and SPEEDROM.

Could somebody help me?
Yann

PS. My RAD DOS driver is:

/* $VER: RAD 40.1 (31.8.93)
*
* Recoverable RAM disk mount entry
*
* You can create different simultaneous recoverable RAM disks by creating
* versions of this file with different Unit values.
*
* The size of a recoverable RAM disk is controlled by the value of the
* HighCyl line. Increasing this value by 1 consumes an additional 11K of
* RAM. So the default value of 79 consumes around 880K of memory.
*/

Device = ramdrive.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 2
SectorsPerTrack = 11
SectorSize = 512
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 1

/* The LowCyl and HighCyl fields are controlled by tooltypes in the RAD icon.
*
* LowCyl = 0
* HighCyl = 79
*/

[Jope]

Might be a good idea to read the blizkick docs regarding prepareemul and localfast.. Perhaps one of them kills your rad.

[tygre]

Hi Jope!

Thanks for your suggestion, I actually had read BlizKick Guide but nothing stands out... I will try without BlizKick at all and see, adding modules one by one too... I'll keep you posted!

Take care!
Yann

[Jope]

I take it the documentation didn't mention anything? I was almost certain that I remember reading about RAD in there somewhere. :-)

[Bamiga2002]

It must be LocalFast that kills RAD on reset.

[tygre]

Dear all!

Thanks for your replies, after having commented out all the patches and enabled them one-by-one with two resets in-between (yes! More than 20 resets in one afternoon ), I found out that MCP was causing my problem, actually its "Processor" option, as confirmed elsewhere: after turning off this feature of MCP, my RAD disk survived the reset

Thanks again!
Yann

[rkauer]

Which MCP version you are using????

IIRC the four last ones cured this issue long time ago (I used to be a beta tester before Dieter's A1 died horribly).

[tygre]

Dear Rkauer!

Indeed, I was using version 1.21 and I just noticed that 1.46 exists I am going to install it right away...

Thanks!
Yann

[daxb]

Have a look (read mcp.guide) at "Processor" function (SSP to FastRAM must be disabled for recoverable RAD). Maybe you don`t need it more (at least MapROM and FastROM because of blizkick). I`ve disabled it on my 1240 + RemAPollo.

If you update to a newer verson of MCP you should take care because functions/patches/mcp.config has changed a lot (~14 years). Make a backup of mcp.config file somewhere just to be sure because you need to save a new mcp.config with mcpprefs.

[tygre]

Thanks Daxb! I actually updated MCP and it worked fine right away... And then my Amiga broke

Cheers!
Yann