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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!hacgate!solaria!bill
  3. From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
  5. Subject: Re: RAM drive under Windows
  6. Message-ID: <23031@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
  7. Date: 26 Aug 92 14:33:29 GMT
  8. References: <1992Aug23.171109.17179@ee.ryerson.ca>
  9. Sender: news@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM
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  14. Calvin Henry-Cotnam (cal@ee.ryerson.ca) wrote:
  15. : I am running Windows 3.1 under DR DOS 6.0 and have tried four
  16. : RAM disk drivers with the following results:
  17. : 
  18. : DRIVER                             MEMORY USED FOR DISK
  19. :                           EXTENDED                  EXPANDED (EMS)
  20. : 
  21. : VDISK.SYS                doesn't work                doesn't work
  22. :  (with DR DOS 6.0)
  23.  
  24. I'm running VDISK.SYS under DRDOS6/WIN3.1 using the following:
  25.  
  26. DEVICE=c:\drdos\emm386.sys /frame=none /bdos=ffff
  27. HIDEVICE=c:\drdos\vdisk.sys 2548 256 256 /e
  28.  
  29. ..everything runs fine.
  30.  
  31.  
  32. Bill Neisius
  33. bill@solaria.hac.com
  34.  
  35.