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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: <1991May29.024526.29980@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 02:45:26 GMT
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ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>>>[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. 

I still don't understand.  What *is* the problem?

In dir ramdisk on WUarchive:

  27 -rw-r--r--  1 20002       26714 May 18  1989 xpandisk.arc
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