Re: RAMDRIVE

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Jun 09 1998 - 19:06:56 EDT


John..
someone told me that win95 uses memory from the top down..
thus if more than the cached memory is installed, then initially, things
will be slower.!!??

John Kim wrote:

> Ack, just got back from a week out sick. Since I made the
> original comment about using uncached memory for RAM drives or
> disk caches, let me elucidate.
>
> Just setting up a RAM drive or a disk cache is not enough. You
> have to map it to the area of memory that is uncached by the
> motherboard. I've never run into this problem so I haven't done
> it, but I know several people who have. Usually it's just a
> matter of configuring the RAM drive or disk cache to take memory
> from the top of the memory address down (or down up - I don't
> remember exactly). The other way is to explicitly specifiy the
> memory address range in the software configuration.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim_at_mak.com

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