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Subject: Re: Ramdisks in high memory
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Date: Mon, 19-May-86 22:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 22:01:00 1986
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/* Written  3:36 am  May 13, 1986 by mark@cbosgd.UUCP in duncan:net.micro.pc */
/* ---------- "Re: Ramdisks in high memory" ---------- */
In article <1897@ihlpg.UUCP> nromy@ihlpg.UUCP (Romy) writes:
>> Does anyone know of either:
>>    a) a hack that allows you to put the ramdisk above 640, or
>>    b) a ramdisk from some other vendor that does?
>
>If you are using MS-DOS 3.10, you should be able to put a RAM disk in
>the upper memory (using the supplied VDISK.SYS driver) by specifying the
>option /E (for extended memory?), which tells the driver that it is to
>use the extended memory space instead of the normal memory space.  This
>is done by putting a line in your CONFIG.SYS file that looks something
>like this:
>
>	DEVICE=VDISK.SYS 200 /E
>
>I don't have a DOS manual with me, so I'm not sure if this is exact (though
>I think it's pretty close).  I seem to remember that this /E option is
>described in the chapter on installable device drivers in the DOS manual
>(buried somewhere in the section which shows examples of how to use the
>VDISK.SYS driver).

I just looked in my DOS manual for the 6300 plus.  There is nothing
called VDISK.  There is something called RAMDISK, documented in
appendix H.  But no /E option or anything comparable.

Perhaps VDISK comes from some other source?  If so, where can we get it?
It's silly to have a third of a MB sitting there wasted while I eat up
my precious 640K with a RAM DISK.

	Mark
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