[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] Memory Expansion

S26604@BARILVM.BITNET (08/12/90)

Hi,
I'm using an IBM XT clone.
I've expanded (extended?) my memory to 1024k but now I've been
told that I can only use this memory as a ram drive and not for
programs (like PC-CACHE which has an extended/expanded memory option
or with DOS's VDISK.SYS only with a special ram-disk driver).
Can this be true? It sounds strange that the memory exists but can't
be recognized by any of my system utilities (Norton's SI for instance).
If it is true does anybody have a program which does give access to this
memory (at list for caching the drives) because the RAM-DISK program
(called CDISK.SYS by the way) does have access to this memory and the
memory checking routine at start-up does check it. Any help would be
appreciated.
                                        thanks
                                        Zongi

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