Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!midway!gsbsun!valley From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Need driver for LARGE RAM disk Keywords: RAM Disk Message-ID: <1991May28.160829.8342@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 28 May 91 16:08:29 GMT References: <468@txsil.lonestar.org> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 15 robin@txsil.lonestar.org (Robin Cover) writes: >Can someone point me to a PD or shareware utility which will support >a large (e.g., 9 megabyte) RAM disk? DOS 3.3 manual does not mention >the upper limit for ramdrive.sys, but I have been unable to get it >to work for extended memory greater than 4 meg. I found nothing >useful in . If there's nothing PD or shareware, >then what commercial utility supports this? (not "cache" please) Try XPANDISK from PCMag. Works with expanded memory (only). No limit (as far as I can tell) on size. Size is changeable on the fly (w/o rebooting) I use it exclusively now. (No more VDISK for me) -- (Another fine mess brought to you by valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu)