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Article #1768Re: Stack a ramdisk? How?
From: Jeff Epler
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:27
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:27
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In a previous article, carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges) says:
>I hav memory to spare on my machine. I already have a 2meg disk cache,
>and I want to have a 2meg ram-drive. My question:
>
>Can I use stacker on this drive?
>
>I get screate to make the stacvol.dsk file on the disk (E:, since
>physical drive C: is stacked), but when I try stacker e: or stacker @e:
>it tells me I have no more available drives or something.
Your line to install STACKER (In CONFIG.SYS) must look something like
this:
DEVICEHIGH=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK @
The @ is the important part -- It tells Stacker to take a little more
memory for information on the second stacked disk. Now, STACKER E:
should work just fine.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bx304 From: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Stack a ramdisk? How? Date: 12 Sep 1992 15:27:32 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA) Lines: 23 Message-ID: <18t294INN3f0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <1992Sep11.215112.14634@cs.mun.ca> Reply-To: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler) NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu