Hmmm this is interesting:
http://www.applelinks.com/mooresviews/ramdisk.shtml
Basically Charles Moore states how he used to start up and run his Powerbook
5300 from a ram disk and get a solid five hours use from the battery without
the hard drive ever spinning up. He also says that since MacOS8.1 operating
systems have ballooned. If I were to try the same thing I'd need to create a
ram disk and put my system folder on it and restart. I just checked and my
system folder is currently standing at 331Mb. Sure I could pair it down a
tad but I see what he means by the size difference.
Checking out an old book I've got shows MacOS8 needing a minimum of 8Mb to
run. I tried creating a ram disk and copied AppleWorks to it. I then span
down the HDD and tried to run AppleWorks. Instantly the HDD kicked in. So I
started up AppleWorks, opened a blank doc and typed a few letters, opened a
few menu's and then spun down the HDD. Again as soon as I started typing
again the hard disk spun up. Something is constantly accessing it and I
don't know what.
Its sounding like I need to fit the system folder onto the ram disk to run
silent, run deep.
Downloaded Appdisk too from:
http://homepage.mac.com/mavsftwre/shareware02.html
And I'll see what that's like.
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