#Ram Drive and CD ROM
4 messages in this thread
Mr. Hertzog,
The installed drives usually are assigned drive letters in the
order that their drivers are installed. I believe if you move the
statement in your CONFIG.SYS that installs RamDrive to after the statement
for your CD-ROM driver that their drive letters will swap. Note: If you
are loading the drivers into high memory, changing their order may affect
how much high memory is available.
Bill Fickas
Don't hold me to this, but I'm not sure that it's the CD ROM driver that
creates the "position." I think it's MCSDEX. And it IS the RAMDRIVE.SYS
driver that creates the RAMDRIVE. And Config.sys loads before autoexec.bat
so I don't think I have a lot of control over the order without switches of
some sort.
..Larry 08:35am PST
That's the conclusion I came to also. I just gave MSCDEX a drive that was
"out a couple" of letters, and then fudge my RAMDRIVE as needed. It's a
pain if you add a new hard drive, since they all load "at once" with the
controller, either before or after the RAMDRIVE, and you can't move the
RAMDRIVE to after the CD-ROM, as you noticed.
Presumably the solution is a RAMDRIVE.SYS which accepts a drive flag. I
don't know if there is one available, but the one from Microsoft certainly
doesn't.
Oops, you're right. I'm new at this CD stuff and forgot it was a two-part
driver.
Bill Fickas