[ct-user] RAMDRIVE for DVP - how to?

[Bill Hider]

Thanks for all the input.
I had left out the C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS command.
But I still could not get it to work..  I was able to launch CT, and I
immediately got "Stack Overflow" errors upon entering CT and it crashed.
I gave up on the RAMDRIVE.
Given my boot-up configuration (F8, etc) below, has anyone been able to make
a RAMDRIVE work with CT9.57.004?
BTW, I've been using the F8 boot-up command since 1997.  It's the only way
I've seen that will allow me to run CT and control my IC-781, key the radio
from LPT2, and have the TNC on COM1.  I use a 4-serial/3-parallel port ISA
card.

I then tried the SMARTDRV command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

C:\windows\smartdrv.exe 8192

That worked fine and creates a disk cache of 8MB.  The DVP audio now gets
pulled from
HDD only once.

Thanks again.

Bill, N3RR



----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hider <n3rr@erols.com>
To: <ct-user@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: [ct-user] RAMDRIVE for DVP - how to?


>
> How can I create a RAM drive for the DVP so that the DVP data uses RAM and
> not the harddrive?
>
> Here's the environment:
>
> P-III/1000 MHZ 256 MB/RAM WIN98SE
>
> 1.  I have a 30 GB C: HDD and a D: CDROM
> 2.  I am running WIN 98SE and booting to F8/Command Prompt Only.
> 3.  I modified my Autoexec.bat with the line:
> set DVPPATH=e
> 4.  I modified my CONFIG.SYS with the line:
> device=c:\windows\ramdrive.sys 1024 512 64 /e
>
> Then, I rebooted, hit F8, selected Command prompt Only
> and received the message that Extended Memory manager was not available.
>
> I then modified config.sys to include SMARTDRV.sys and autoexec.bat
> to include EMM386.exe, but the error came up: XMS manager not available.
>
> What is needed to create the RAMDrive in drive E:?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill, N3RR
>
>
>
>
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