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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: RAMdisk for AT extended memory
Keywords: ramdisk, extended memory
Message-ID: <1446@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 02:40:40 GMT
References: <2002@husc6.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
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Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <2002@husc6.harvard.edu> vanderbi@husc4.UUCP (David Vanderbilt) writes:
<Can someone point me to a public domain or shareware version of
<software to set up a RAM disk in the extended memory portion of
<RAM on an AT machine?  (The only one I could find in the
<SIMTEL-20 archives is LESDISK (msdos.sysutl), but its poorly
<documented, and I can't get it to work on my machine.)

Most recent versions of MSDOS include VDISK.SYS. It will create a
ramdisk in extended memory instead of normal memory if you put a
/E on the end of the command.

Example:
DEVICE=VDISK.SYS 512 /E
will create a 512k ramdisk in extended memory.

Check your DOS manual for details.
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