rps@homxc.UUCP (02/27/87)
(I have finally done it! I got a 2 meg ramdisk to work on my DOS only 6300+! The hotline bulletins were no help. Previous postings did not work, I was going crazy!) For those of you out there who have DOS ONLY 6300+'s and you want to install a 2 meg ramdisk (great for C compiler) this is what you do: You need: PC 6300+ with 1 meg on motherboard - you only need 640K, the other 384K gets wasted. MS DOS 3.1. AT&T Enhanced Memory Expansion Board populated with 2048 MB memory. AT&T AEMM, AEX and ramdisk software (comes with board). On the memory board set: SW1: 00000001 SW2: 11100000 make sure jumper is set to 6300+ setting (default). In your config.sys file put at the top: DEVICE=<path>aemm.sys DEVICE=<path>aex.sys 2048 DEVICE=<path>ramdisk.dev /m/extm /DL where <path> is where ever you happen to hide these files. The ramdisk.dev is the one supplied with the memory board, NOT the one with DOS 3.1. The /m/extm tells the ramdisk to take all extended memory and use it. The /DL is the CRUCIAL part that tells the ramdisk the leave the lower 1MB (640K for system, 384K wasted) alone! This will produce on your system a 2MB ramdisk known as D:. It really works. Russ Sharples homxc!rps