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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Creating a ram disk for a single VDM
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.184353.28892@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:43:53 GMT
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- In article <83840@ut-emx.uucp> jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar) writes:
- >How do you create a ram disk for a single VDM session? The VDISK.SYS
- >driver only works in the CONFIG.SYS and is common across all VDM sessions.
- >I tried using the RAMDRIVE.SYS that comes with DOS 5.0, but it comes up
- >with SYS3176 errors and one time with a SYS2240 (Can't use block device
- >driver in specific VDM).
- >There are some other ram disk utilities out there that I haven't tried, but
- >it'd be less of a problem to use the generic DOS 5.0 driver.
-
- It might work in a specific DOS session -- see the online Command
- Reference under VMDISK and/or Appendix E of your Installation Guide
- for details.
-
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