Mounting RAD:

[Groundhog]

When I mount a RAD device, everything seems correct, but when I try to access it, there's a 205 error, "Object Not Found". When I move the rad file from sys:storage/dosdrivers to sys:devs/dosdrivers, the rad is only accessible as a NDOS disk.

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but I'm working from (bad) memory and the documentation on the net is sparse. Well, how can "mount RAD:" be wrong ? That's odd...

BTW, Bloodwych, I found a solution for the lazybench problem (with StarFlight2). I created a little script to launch the executable and linked to that script. Everything is fine now. Anyway, that's odd too.

[smoorke]

Most likely your mountlist 'RAD' has an error.
Can you post the contents of your file.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by smoorke

Most likely your mountlist 'RAD' has an error.
Can you post the contents of your file.

Sure. But I didn't change anything. These are the default files in the Full, AdvSP, and P96 configs.

/* $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
 */

And default values in tooltypes.

[Toni Wilen]

Not enough RAM?

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Not enough RAM?

I tried with 8Mb chip mem and 32Mb Z3 fast mem.

No result.

[Don_Adan]

Try from CLI:

dir rad:

or use DMSwin and WRITE to RAD: disk.

[Groundhog]

Originally Posted by Don_Adan

Try from CLI:

dir rad:

or use DMSwin and WRITE to RAD: disk.

Why should I try "dir rad:" since it isn't correctly mounted ?

Anyway, the resulting error, predictably :

RAD: is not a directory
directory not found

[Groundhog]

I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem. The ClassicWB configs are still in their original state, I only made minor modifications, and not to the system !

Has anybody tried to mount a rad device with ClassicWB before ?

[Amiga1992]

Are you mounting it from the icon?
Or CLI?

if on CLI, you will have to uncomment this:

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

Otherwise you probably are creating a RAD device with 0 cylinders..

Just a guess...
Also, try to specify where you are mounting it fropm, like

mount RAD: from devs:storage/RAD

[Groundhog]

Never mind. I think I know why I have so many problems.

My WB3.1 disks were corrupted. I remember I saw some error messages when I installed ClassicWB. I thought they were only warnings...

Now I need to reinstall the whole thing.

Thanks anyway.

EDIT: Confirmed, my disks were corrupted. It works now. DAMN !!!

[Don_Adan]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

Why should I try "dir rad:" since it isn't correctly mounted ?

Anyway, the resulting error, predictably :

RAD: is not a directory
directory not found

1. Mount RAD:
2. Dir RAD:
It always work on my Amiga OS 2.0.
Or
1. Mount RAD:
2. Use DMSwin 1.53 (WRITE) option, select RAD: as destination
and unpack any DMS archive.

It works on my A2000. I'm always use RAD disk.

You can try also:
1. Mount RAD:
2. Mount RAD:
If you seen "RAD: is already mounted" then RAD is correctly
installed on your OS. But is not activated.

[Groundhog]

See the previous post.

Your help is still appreciated anyway.

Thanks.