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If you mirrored the RAM to your hard drive, it would remove the
purpose of having a RAM DRIVE in the first place.  In fact, it would
make your scans slower than using no RAM DRIVE at all.  LOL.

Daniel.


neo wrote:

> This may be the answer to the Win2000 limitation of not allowing one
> to use all RAM before the swapfile. If one had 2 GB of RAM, one
> could put all common programs and MS data into RAM. Explorations
> would fly!What exactly is the best way to do this? What is the best
> program? One would want all operations to run in RAM but have the
> RAM mirrored on your hard drive.neo
>
>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of C.S.
>      Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 12:12 AM
>      To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>      Subject: Re: VramDir
>
>      HEY!    You found the instructions to my
>      weed-eater! -Corey.
>
>           ----- Original Message -----
>           From: John Sellers
>           To: Metastock User Group
>           Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 5:57 AM
>           Subject: VramDir
>            Group:
>
>           This article came from a German magazine which I
>           got translated to English. I was interested as
>           well as other group members thus am sharing it
>           with anyone so include to read it.If you wish to
>           read it in German go to www.virtusoft.com and
>           you may find it.
>
>           By Matthias Carstens
>
>           bypass VRAMDIR: (K)eine RAM disk for Windows 95
>           VRAMDIR unites the advantages of a RAM disk in
>           itself, done thereby however without the typical
>           disadvantages. By an ingenious trick it
>           generally accelerates fixed disk accesses and
>           thus Windows. Since there is Windows 95, many
>           users look a genuine 32-Bit-RAM-Disk up, because
>           the provided operates only in the
>           16-Bit-Kompatibilitaetsmodus. But it does not
>           give until today.
>
>           Instead the Virtual software corporation offers
>           now however a beginning the unusual at first
>           sight more ingenious on the second view for the
>           use of the fallow-being situated RAMs. By Setup
>           the user defines directories on his fixed disks,
>           into whom from now on physically nothing more is
>           written - all files land in the RAM. This
>           principle eliminates at one blow all with usual
>           RAM disks accompanying restrictions, like
>           additional drive letters, specific cluster sizes
>           and partition information. They prevent a
>           dynamic groessenaenderung with DOS-BASED RAM
>           disks. Too German: The RAM disk had to be
>           produced with a fixed size. If it were not too
>           small, it was excessive and occupied
>           unnecessarily much RAM.
>