Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!sybase!mercury!sean From: sean@mercury.sybase.com (Sean Fitts) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2 Subject: Re: Is it possible to define a VDISK for DOS Box DOS to use? Message-ID: <8761@sybase.sybase.com> Date: 20 Mar 90 17:31:10 GMT References: <32811@brunix.UUCP> <1990Mar16.133453.3276@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@Sybase.COM Organization: Sybase, Inc. Lines: 24 In article dkb@cs.brown.edu (Dilip Barman) writes: > > >Really? How can you define an OS/2 VDISK? And why would you want to - >wouldn't it slow down the machine due to less paging memory available? >Dilip Barman dkb@cs.brown.edu >U.S. mail: Brown University Home: 19 Elton Street > Dept. of Computer Science, Box 1910 Providence, RI 02906 > Providence, RI 02912 (401)863-7666 (401)521-9731 To define a VDISK you use the VDISK.SYS driver that comes with OS/2. Any VDISK you define is visible from both OS/2 and the penalty box. As for why, we find it help when doing large compiles to have the temp files on the vdisk (thus avoiding paging all together). -Sean ========================================================================= Sean Fitts / Sybase / 6475 Christie Ave. / Emeryville, CA 94608 sean@mercury.sybase.com -or- {mtxinu,pacbell,sun,pyramid}!sybase!sean "As you probably already know, the opinions are mine and not Sybase's" "Character is what you are in the dark." ========================================================================