ramdisk operational !!!!!

[lizard_boy]

Ramdisc for Win98 (http://www.jlajoie.com/ramdsk98/)

Ramsic for WinNT & Win2000 (http://www.jlajoie.com/ramdskNT/)

[ 02-25-2001: Message edited by: lizard_boy ]

[LukeMan]

you might want to read these threads on how to set it up
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folding-at-home/message/1735?threaded=1
:D :D

[lizard_boy]

allright, just got the ramdisk to work, took a little trial & error...but here's how i did it...

1) download the program mentioned above & set up a 10MB ramdisk on the letter of your choice...i used 'r'

2) create these 2 batch files...just open notepad...cut & paste what i have below

i called this one boot_fah.bat
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c:
cd \
cd progra~1
cd foldin~1
copy *.* r:\
r:
r:\fah.exe
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i called this one save_fah.bat
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r:
copy *.* c:\progra~1\foldin~1
-----------------------------------------

in case you are an idiot like me...when you save the file choose 'all files' from the pull down menu and save it with a .bat extension

make sure in your power profile you allow your hard drive to spin down after a certain amount of time...and you should be ready go to go

when you double-click on boot_fah.bat it copies the files from your real hard disk into the ram disk & launches folding

when you are ready to stop folding...hit 'control-c' like always...then double click on save_fah.bat and it will copy all your hard work back to your hard drive so you can shut down your computer without losing info

there is probably an easier way to do all this...but this is working great for me...i left my computer folding for a few hours with the hard drive silent the whole time...seems to be running slightly faster also

good luck...

[ 02-26-2001: Message edited by: lizard_boy ]

[gmcd33]

Is the RAM disk faster, if so how much?

[lizard_boy]

no evidence to back this up...but i'm guessing around 5% faster

my main reason for doing this wasn't for the speed but because i want to fold 24/7 but i don't want to wear out my hard drive...hopefully this will help :D

[Scoot]

Wow, I was trying to figure this out, see my post:
posted 02-17-2001 03:30 AM | Posts: 404 | From Spokane WA. USA | Registered: Oct 2000 |
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Hey Ken,
Nope, I am still folding villins
I uninstalled and reinstalled what I thought was an upgrade to 1.34 but it was still 1.33b.
The website said 1.34 console version I swear.
I just have a slow puter
Trying to figure out how to fold on a ramdrive sort of like the "crazy man tweak" over in the cable forum. I just can't seem to make the ramdrive big enouph to run the program.
An altenative to the MS ramdrive might be:
vRamDir 1.10
Check it out,shareware but only 10 dollars
Looks like you could run the program on it and with the checkpoint feature you would not lose anything if the system crashed and you ramdrive is wiped clean.
What do you think?
<i>Help meeeee.....</i>
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Gonna have to do some more testing, thanks!

[lizard_boy]

cool scoot,

let me know how it works...i'm at work right but today is the first extended test of the program...i almsot forgot to run the 'save_fah.bat' earlier when i rebooted my computer

[lizard_boy]

here is how i've got my ramdisk configured

http://www.geocities.com/lizard_boy8/ramdisc_setup.JPG

also...forgot to mention many thanks to luke_man for pointing me to the yahoo groups and to kaboler who had a nice post about how he setup his ramdisk

[ 02-25-2001: Message edited by: lizard_boy ]