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From: hirayama@suvax1.UUCP (Pat Hirayama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fun with RAM disks (was Re: Improve response time with paths)
Message-ID: <833@suvax1.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 09:41:08 GMT
References: <1211@lznv.ATT.COM>
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
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in article <1211@lznv.ATT.COM>, psc@lznv.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) says:
> In article <634@astroatc.UUCP>, jojo@astroatc.UUCP (Jon Wesener) writes:
>> In article <1199@lznv.ATT.COM> psc@lznv writes:
>> >hack, I put in my "C boot floppy" and boot off of it.  The CONFIG.SYS
>> >builds a RAM disk, specifies that C:COMMAND.COM is the command
>> 	Why don't you get one of the ramdrive programs that don't
>> take up any memory (except for a small amount for the driver) until
>> you request it to.  The one I use lets you specify the drive and
>> amount of memory you want whenever you want with a special program
>> called setram.  You can also use it to deallocate the space from the
>> drive as well.
> 
> Okay, sounds interesting.  Where can I get one of these?  (SETRAM, you
> said?)






There is also a PD program out there which is called RAMDISK.  I'm not sure
about which company created it (The documentation is real brief).  It should
be available on most PD BBS, with some description like "change RAMDISK w/o
reboot".  

It works like this:

have "device=ramdrv.sys" , then just type RAMDISK n (n=# byte for ramdisk).
I'm not sure exactly how much additional memory this takes.

If you are interested and cannot find it anywhere, you could e-mail me.
Or try US Mail and I'm sure that we could make arrangements.  Perhaps,
I'll post it (as soon as I can figure out how to).



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					- Pat Hirayama
					- Seattle University
email : hirayama@suvax1!dataio!...
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        Auburn, WA 98001-1140

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