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pcbuilderchrispcbuilderchris
edited January 2005 in Hardware
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http://www.superspeed.com/servers/ramdiskplus.php

it says that ramdisk plus can keep info on ram until next start of the system i wonder if its possible to permenatly write to ram and do something stupid and rig some wires into an ide from a portion of the ram that holds a hd emulator wich tells another chip on the ram to boot into a mini linux or live system i have a gig and can get 2 gigs of ram so i bet i could hold a live system

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  • QQ
    That site wrote:
    When enabled, RamDisk Plus automatically saves the entire image of the RAM disk to a special image file located on a user-specified disk partition or volume at system shutdown.

    It just saves the RAMdisk to the hard drive on shutdown and copies it back on startup.

    -Q

    PS. *Moved to HW talk*
  • SlashSlash
    TweakXP 4 can do the same
  • Ka0sKa0s
    But why bother, the second your computer freezes / crashes its all gone :P
  • QQ
    I think he was confused about how it was "persistent" and getting his own ideas.

    -Q
  • SlashSlash
    As for me, I didn't find any way why to use ramdrives on modern PCs
  • BODBOD
    bootdisks
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Isn't RAMdisk similar to hibernation from what Q quoted?
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  • QQ
    Similar, but not the same. Hibernation takes the contents of memory and saves it to disk so it can be restored on restart. RAMdisks create a virtual "drive" out of memory, and save to the disk on shutdown, etc, etc.

    -Q
  • BODBOD
    hibernation is great for laptops
  • nighticenightice
    Great for desktops too.
  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Yea I hibernate my laptop a lot, since I have some issue that makes logging on take a while.
  • BODBOD
    if that battery is about to die thats when it comes in useful
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  • SurfinShell23SurfinShell23
    Tomchu wrote:
    This is also why I tried to use Linux
    did I read that right?
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  • noonenoone
    Tomchu wrote:
    Yes. I followed a fairly recent version of the LFS book, making my own distro from scratch, optimizing everything to hell along the way.

    It was *still* *slow* *as* *fuck*. And it wouldn't hibernate or standby. An OS that can't hibernate or standby is 100% useless on a laptop. Not to mention it took about 20 hours of work to get a rudimentary dynamic clock scaling system going. The fucking kernel doesn't even have support for that, believe it or not.
    strangely, i had standby on linux. hibernate sucks ass and would fuck linux up so i must of gotten somewhere.
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