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Hello,
Re: RAM Disk.
RAM Disks were used extensively in DOS for the purpose of eliminating the
"physical" aspect of disk movement. A RAM disk processed data about 1000
times faster than a physical hard drive since there were no moving parts.
In today's environment, if you have enough memory, Windows usually does a
good job of caching data from the hard disk so that instead of going to the
hard drive, it goes to RAM (just like the RAM Disk of yesteryear).
Ironically, I have noticed that my Explores also take a very long time while
MS goes to the hard disk and reads data. The hard disk is working overtime.
I wonder if the caching is working AT ALL. Does not appear that way.
You can fool around with RAM disks. Don't know if they work on Windows 95 or
NT.
David
From: Vitaly Larichev <vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Ram Disk
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 16:14:45 -0500
"José Carlos Duarte Areia" wrote:
> Another day I read here one message that mencioned the use of a Ram Disk
to
> made Explorations in Metastock with more speed.
> How can I create a Ram disk to use in my explorations ?
> Could someone explain step by step how to do this ?
> Thanks JCarlos
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Hi, it was me. However, I tried it quite a while ago, and some details might
fall through
the cracks (of my memory).
This is what I unearthed in my old C:\config.sys. As far as I remember, you
need to add
into C:\config.sys file the following lines to create RAM drive G: =8.192 Mb
in
the extended memory:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\Ramdrive.sys 8192 /E
LASTDRIVE=G
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
Then you copy data files you want to G: and use Metastock treating G: as a
regular disk
Those more knowledgeable than me please check the above if I missed
something. Possibly,
it was for DOS with Win 3.11. Don't know if the same commands are valid for
Win95/98.
But my point was that there was no speed increase at all! Let me know if I
was wrong.
Cheers, Vitaly
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