From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Loading ramdrive.sys
Date: 25 Oct 2000 08:00:22 GMT
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Salvador I. Ducros (sducros AT home DOT com) wrote:
: Hello all,

: Anybody out there have any ideas of how to load the MSDOS 5.0
: RamDisk driver (ramdrive.sys) from a DJGPP program, if its at all
: possible? In other words, the system would already be booted, a
: DJGPP program is executed and it creates a RamDisk by loading
: the ramdrive.sys driver.

: If not, anybody out there have any ideas of how to detect if
: the ramdrive.sys driver has been previously loaded and if so, what
: drive letter it is using?

You could use a RAMDISK driver that works better. Search on simtel.net
for Franck Uberto's RAMDISK or RAMDRIVE. It loads from the command
line and you can choose which letter it's going to use.


Right,

						MartinS