XP swapfile on a CF card

[pmx]

I have two drives in my Thinkpad. The second drive is fitted in an Ultrabay adapter and holds the swapfile, temp directory and browsers caches. This makes the system run much smoother.

I used a CF card with an CFtoIDE adapter instead of the hard drive, since it's got almost no seek delays and transfer ratio is constant throughout entire volume.

It works nice (and noiseless), but I can't move the swapfile there.

I may be wrong, but I think it is because XP recognizes the CF card as a removable device, despite being connected to the ATA connector like all hard drives. Logical disk manager describes it as "Removable" instead of "Basic".

How to fool Windows into thinking it is a plain hard drive?

[pmx]

If anybody's interested...

Just purchased an industrial CF card. It is recognized as a hard drive, not removable device, and the swapfile can be put on it. Great. So it is the card's EPROM that matters the most.

The computer I'm using that on is an A31. I have replaced the floppy drive with an Ultrabay-to-IDE adapter and put the CF card there. Runs smoother now.

[AMATX]

Don't remember the details, but I think there's a way to change the setting on the CF card to indicate that's it's not a removable device, allowing Windows to use it for swap space.

Mighta been on this board I read that, mighta not. Worth doing a search, if you're interested.

[pmx]

If you go to HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Enum/IDE

you can find the flash (and other) drives by name

they're configured differently than plain hard drives, but I still haven't found out which setting is important.

Besides, after reboot system restores the old settings, so probably system inf files (more precisely, disk driver descriptions) should be changed.

[cosmos]

i'm running server 2008 and put IE cache on a ramdisk,,which released by Buffalo,,

[AMATX]

i'm running server 2008 and put IE cache on a ramdisk,,which released by Buffalo,,

Hi - could you point me to a url to grab the Buffalo ramdisk you referred to?
Thanks...

[pmx]

it's probably this one: http://www.buffalotech.com/technology/b ... alo-tools/

A ramdisk is nothing special, there are also free utils that create it. You specify the size, drive letter, and there you go.

However, an app that could create a variable size ramdrive, would be a great thing.

In ancient times, Amiga OS had a builtin ramdrive, which occupied only the memory it needed. If you copied 1 megabyte, it took 1 megabyte from system RAM. The amount of free RAM was the limit. Obviously temp directory was put on the ramdrive by default.

That was in 1985, and till now I haven't heard about such solution for those superb windows os...