Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 04:07:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Jude T. DaShiell" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: ms-dos 7 ramdrive.sys and djgpp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I think I caught Microsoft in a lie. I use a Dell Dimension p3 with 128mb of ram and it's a 450mhz speed machine. They contaminated the machine with windows 98se at the factory. So I put the djgpp distribution on the machine, got to get some good software on it and try doing the instructions in section 3.9 of the djgppfaq.txt file. All was going well until I tried installing a ramdrive with ramdrive.sys in expanded memory that's above 1mb. Microsoft says to use the /A switch. When I do that, I don't get a ramdrive at all. So I load himem.sys before emm386.exe. I have device=himem.sys and device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noemx novcpi dos=high,umb If I use: devicehigh=c:\windows\ramdrive.sys 8192 512 64 /E strangely enough I have me an 8mb ram drive as d:. The ramdrive.sys statement evidently must want to be loaded before cd-rom drives and zip drives since though its order puts it after my cd-rom drive statement in config.sys the cd-rom drive is now e:. If I take out the himem.sys line and leave in the ramdrive.sys line, no ramdrive. Go figure. -------------------- jude