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From: melkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Michael Elkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you make a RAMDISK?
Message-ID: <3610@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 89 23:57:01 GMT
References: <18100@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: melkins@jarthur.claremont.edu (Michael Elkins)
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In article <18100@netnews.upenn.edu> parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Gary Parnes) writes:
>What exactly do I have to put into my config.sys/autoexec.bat
>to make a Ramdisk?  I have 1 Meg of memory, so that 384K is just
>sitting around often.

You need to put this into your CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=[drive:\] RAMDRIVE.SYS [DISKSIZE] [SECTORSIZE] [ENTRIES] [/E]

Where DISKSIZE is the size of the "disk", most likely 384 from what you've
said.  SECTORSIZE is the size of each sector (default is 128 bytes).  ENTRIES
is the maximum number of files you can store (default is 64).  /E uses
extended memory (you will probably use this if your extended memory is "on
board."

-me


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