Hello Richard:
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:31:15 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
wrote:
> Hi
> 19 Feb 2001, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SH> I wonder if any of you could recommend for me a virtual disk utility
> SH> for use with Arachne on a WIN95 machine. It appears that WIN95 does
> SH> not even come with any utility to be used for the purpose of
> SH> establishing a ramdisk.
> hmmm ... in the german version there's ramdrive.sys ...
> but I would recommand using another free alternative.
OK, I found it in the directory C:\WINDOWS. In the Windows "Help" I could
find nothing about ramdisks, ramdrive.sys, or virtual disks. I found
Windows "Help" most unhelpful, as usual. So I don't have any notion as to
how I might use ramdrive.sys to set up a virtual disk with a machine having
DOS 7.0 and Windows 95 installed.
> SH> Also I would like to know if there are any good virtual disk
> SH> utilities that can be used to load and unload a ramdisk during the
> SH> same session, i.e, without having to reboot.
> XMSDSK can do that ...
> BUT only outside of windows.
Is this because Windoze requires having available certain extended memory
addresses which would conflict with those wanting to be used by the virtual
drive? BTW, where can I get XMSDSK? I've looked for it with several
search engines but haven't found it yet. Is it freeware, shareware, or
payware?
> You can resize it freely ...
> What I would need is a dynamically resizeable ramdisk, but I haven't found
> one :(
> (ramdisk which takes only up ram, when there are files in it)
> SH> don't recall having read any reports on their performance from anyone
> SH> who has any experience with using such.
> performances are nearly equal ... (just like ppp packetdrivers ;)
Thanks for the info.
Sam
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