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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need driver for LARGE RAM disk
Keywords: RAM Disk
Message-ID: <1991May28.090156.6809@uwasa.fi>
Date: 28 May 91 09:01:56 GMT
References: <1991May27.043524.20211@uwasa.fi> <6602@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991May27.210905.136@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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>>[Some users say Ramdrive.sys doesn't work for very large ramdisks]

The big ram disk problem has been partly solved thanks to the
feedback from users, Daniel Wesolowski dwt@acsu.buffalo.edu in
particular.  He pointed out that the vdisk.sys driver that comes
with older MsDos version has large disk capability.  I have an old
Zenith Z-181 laptop with MsDos 3.21, which includes vdisk.sys. 
Contrary to the more recent ramdisk.sys, vdisk.sys created a 7K
ramdisk for me on my office 386 without problems. 

This solution is not, however, entirely satisfactory from the point
of view of FTP archives, since vdisk.sys cannot be distributed for
obvious reasons.  (No requests, please).

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Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
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