Re: RamDisk

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From: Don Burn (burn_at_stopspam.acm.org)
Date: 02/26/05


Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:03:58 -0500

Please do not use filedisk. This is stolen software, the gentleman offering
it asked for a copy of a driver from fellow MVP Jamey Kirby, then stripped
Jamey's identification off of it and slapped on a GPL without permission.
The same individual has asked me and others to sreal from Microsoft, he is a
thief.

-- 
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
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"Park, Sung-Jae" <darkpgm@kornet.net> wrote in message 
news:cvpa4q$g9e$1@news1.kornet.net...
> Manny Silva ¾´ ±Û:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    I need to be able to allocate a block of memory and then fool the 
>> kernel
>> into believing that it is a permanent drive.  This is what the old 
>> ramdisk
>> did, if I'm not mistaken.  I need to be able to do this programatically
>> (within an MFC app), and it would be nice if I could assign it a path 
>> that
>> would not show up in the shell.  It would also be nice if I could prevent
>> this memory from being swapped out, though this is not absolutely 
>> necessary.
>> Is there any way to accomplish such a task?  I don't mind shelling out to 
>> a
>> utility if necessary, so long as I can do everything without any user
>> interaction (and preferably no flashing console windows during the 
>> process :o)
>>
>> I hope that this is the proper newsgroup for this question.  If not, 
>> please
>> point me in the right direction.
>>
>
> there is an exapmle to implement ramdisk.(Using ddk, ramdisk/filedisk
> driver)
> It is free source, someone wirte it and open.
>
> unfortunately i forgot that URL. but you can find it easily on google.
>
>
> if you want to implement it in user-mode, you should to hook the system 
> API. 


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