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From: ppd491@leah.Albany.Edu (Peter P. Donohue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How do you make a RAMDISK?
Summary: what drive letter?
Message-ID: <2301@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 16 Dec 89 04:07:29 GMT
References: <18100@netnews.upenn.edu> <3610@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <3610@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, melkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Michael Elkins) writes:
> 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."
                                                                         
  What drive letter would you use to call on it?                        
  What is the advantage to having more or less bytes in each sector?    
  Is there any disadvantage (or limit) to setting ENTRIES to some        
absurdly high number just so you wont have to worry about exceeding the   
limit?  
  Is there a way to put it in any memory above 1k (say if you have 2 meg
of memory on board)?
  Thanks.                                        
              
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You got it! Ack!!!  

Phtpptt...
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