Yep, just tried Rdisk and it works as expected (when loaded from
Autoexec.bat), I can assign a known drive letter and then not have to "faff
around" trying to locate the ramdisk using findtdsk.exe.
I don't think rdisk was around in 2003 when we set up our stuff originally,
which I why we went tdsk route.
Interestingly thou, Rdisk suffered the same problem, that tdsk had, in that
we stored the ramdrive disk letter in an environment variable %RAMDRIVE%
and our watcom app used a GetVar to retrieve it.
This is where is was failing with the post 0.82 FreeCOM versions.
However now I can assign a specific drive letter, we don't need that added
complexity, so I have changed our Watcom app to just use a fixed letter
(did mean I had to fire up Watcom for the first time in 7 years, and
suffer all the hurt than Watcom involves compared to a modern compiler!)
Anyway, made some progress with that, things are working a bit better.
One last question, all these memory managers and such, is there a
recommended set for a modern PC?
At the moment, my fdconfig.sys looks like:
DEVICE=A:\JEMMEX.EXE
SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:512 /P
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DOSDATA=UMB
FILES=20
BUFFERS=20
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICEHIGH=A:\UIDE.SYS /S40 /D:CDROM1
and the start of my Autoexec.bat looks like:
LH A:\RDISK.COM /S50 /:Y
A:\FREEDOS\SHSUCDX /QQ /D:CDROM1,Z
Any pointers or help optimizing it further would be appreciated. In the
past we have used umbpci.sys, and i'm not sure if this was related to our
problems, i'm also not sure if it replaces what I currently have, or
replaces anything ( JEMMEX?)
On 8 March 2012 13:38, Mark Brown <eufdp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> for what it's worth,
> RDISK with the size parameter /Snn (nn being the number of megabytes)
> is, in real terms, more stable than the ram disk you're using,
> which i've *never* gotten working right because it always messes up for me.
>
> rdisk on the other hand has *always* worked for me,
> it gives you 25 megabytes if you omit the size parameter /S .
>
> all info about it is in the freedos 1.1 full install,
> incl. how to assign specific drive letter(s) to the ram disk(s).
>
> most sincerely,
> mark brown
>
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