Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Making a RAMDRIVE -- Oops! I meant... Message-ID: <258B285E.12972@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 17 Dec 89 05:47:10 GMT References: <18166@netnews.upenn.edu> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 19 In article <18166@netnews.upenn.edu> parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Gary Parnes) writes: $What I was really looking for was a way to turn extended memory into $disk caching memory. Or is this automatic? When it comes to extended memory, nothing is automatic. And there is a _big_ difference between a ramdisk and a disk cache. HAving said that ... Recent versions of DOS have, I believe, been shipped with either IBMCACHE.SYS or SMARTDRV.SYS (I know all the PC-DOS 3.30s and above at work last summer had IBMCACHE), which will work in extended memory. If you have a recent version of PCTools, it includes PC-Cache. I forget who Central Point licences that from, but whoever it is has an even better version (is it PC-Kwik, the shareware disk cache?). There are also lots of disk caches on many BBSs. -- Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n"; **************************************************************************** If it's true that love is only a game//Well, then I can play pretend