http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815271 en Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:20:38 EDT Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:20:38 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-3082178 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-3082178 Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:45:33 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2894023 final version as far as I'm concerned...(unless someone else has some good ideas)

This one should use a bit less memory, (removed some dead variables) and has tooltips..so just move over the textboxes/check boxes, to find out what it does/means.

»quadrantwars.dnsalias.ne ··· disk.zip (again including source)

I've tested it for about 8 days, and haven't had any frame loss yet. (
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2894023 Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:08:49 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2881864
I've set mine to emulate a hard drive, and then formatted it as FAT32. I left the geometry at default.
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What window are you not getting, the second one?

Are you sure you have the latest update? He just updated it recently, to add the config options button...

»Re: 'RAM Disk mover' utility



[text was edited by author 2002-03-27 22:26:29]]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2873875 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:23:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2872822 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2872822 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:39:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869856 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869856 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:19:18 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869771
I've never seen the error before I have to say...
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Try changing the FAH2Console-v217.exe in the FAH directory on the HD to FAH2Con.exe, point to that executable in the RDM and see if that helps.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869620 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:52:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869396 said by MstrBlstr:

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PC, can you post any pics of your set-up?

I do not get any turncated files, just currious why you are.

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I just get a window that tells me it cannot support long file names and do I want to change it to FAH2Con.exe..It has the name change already..:(..
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I do not get any turncated files, just currious why you are.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869205 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:05:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869168
This is the way that I have mine set-up for FAH2, and it is working like a charm.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869168 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:02:51 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869126
Hummm, and ? Not a very good choice of icons IMHO... :[ Gonna see about changing that rule... ;)

Oh, Matt, Ick, S-F... Where are you... :D :D :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869126 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:59:23 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869118 said by AsyncTea:

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Okay... btw I'm not sure what you mean with those faces, to be honest :)

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Well if you are writing a msg that has to do with folding you use the Red Face to show it is a folding topic..And the same for Genome only it is the blue face..It was just so people could see instantly what the topic was about..--webbot]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2869118 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:58:55 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868852 --
AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868852 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:30:16 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868631 --
Help your fellow man Join Team Helix Helix Forum]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868631 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:00:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868459 said by webbot:

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Well Let me see..it seems we started with the Red Face to denote a Folding Topic and the Blue Face Denotes Genome.--webbot

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OK, who's bright idea was that, and why are you the only one that knows about it?

I just thought that you were always mad or something... :D :D :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868459 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:28:27 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868443 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868443 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:25:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868349 --webbot]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868349 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:11:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868266
And yeah, you've got to change the ram disk size to fit (under Control Panel->RAM disk). I have it at 15mb now, and haven't noticed any problems yet with FaH2.

If you guys have anything that you would like to see.. just tell me, when I'm in a good mood (often :P), I might add it :)
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868266 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:00:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868179 maybe... LOL

The other one looks to me like you are mad all the time.

Folding face eh, must have been before my time... ROTFLMAO!!!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868179 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:49:48 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868117 --webbot]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2868117 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:40:30 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2867947
As far a tuncating the files, I have not seen that. Lemme do some research in the matter, and I will get back to you.

And please go easy on the :( face... Makes me feel bad to see you mad all the time... ;) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2867947 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:15:43 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2867848 said by MstrBlstr:

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CP... You want to copy the whole fah2 folder to the ram drive, not just the FAH2 executable. It must copy all files from inside the fah2 folder including the client.cfg.

This is is what mine looks like try this.

Also, I am not sure that this will work with the GUI version of the client, as it has registry settings. Thus, when it moves the directory, the settings in the registry would be wrong. I would suggest only using the console version of the client with the RamDrive, unless you initially install the the GUI version to your RamDrive.

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I am using the console version..I first tried to copy the entire folder and it would not do anything unless I let it truncate the file names..won't that affect it's performance?
I only made it 32mb using this formula for the config file.

(32 X 1024) - 4096 = 28672 bytes
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This is is what mine looks like try this.

Also, I am not sure that this will work with the GUI version of the client, as it has registry settings. Thus, when it moves the directory, the settings in the registry would be wrong. I would suggest only using the console version of the client with the RamDrive, unless you initially install the the GUI version to your RamDrive.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2867568 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:20:50 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2867450
1) When I create the Fah2 program it wants to truncate all the files because it does not support long file names.

2) When it is initializing FAH2 it is in a loop and asks over and over Name, Team #, Proxy, etc and then starts again..

Will your program work with Win98SE? Thanks..--webbot
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Thank You.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2857790 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 09:02:46 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2857295 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2857295 Tue, 26 Mar 2002 05:32:24 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2849991
I've changed the program somewhat. It will now copy the files at startup to your (specified) ramdisk. If you like you can also directly run a process in that directory (only the exe filename is required, so it will work for other folding/seti projects as well). Then it can happily fold, and when the program is shut down (manually or by windows) it will copy all the files straight to the given fixed HD. At startup again, the process repeats :)

I've added a few extra things, and removed some as well. It will not use the process list anymore. The program will just do the above mentioned. But, it can copy a backup every xx minutes, if you like.

For any problems:
"Copy From:" should be the ramdisk
"Copy to:" should be the fixed hd

At startup it will do the inverse (to->from) and at the exit of the program (or after the 'backup' time) (from->to)

I would suggest that you if you use it, make a backup yourself of the ramdisk as well. Just to be sure. Every Windows is different, and maybe it does some fancy stuff my PC doesn't :)

The link is again: »quadrantwars.dnsalias.ne ··· disk.zip (source code included)

if you want the program to startup automatically, simply drag the program's exe into the "Startup" folder of the start menu (as shortcut), or if you do no t like that edit the registry...
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2849991 Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:32:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2823988
It works perfectly IMO...

btw, Power outages... if we have one here in 3 years, then it's much. Also, if Win2k crashes when you have open files, all those files will be "virtually gone" anyways, so a power failure will probably cause the files to disappear anyway. But I might add something like "Copy files every xxx minutes", so you can still copy a backup every now and then...
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2823988 Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:09:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2821367 said by ThE WeaseL:

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Where can I get a driver to make a ram disk...PS: I'm using windows XP pro.

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The second link in AsyncTea's first post takes you to a page where you can download a free ramdisk driver. I'm using it in XP Pro right now, and it works fine.

I'm not sure I'll use it for folding/crunching, but I'm using it for my IE temp folder, and browsing is wicked fast. ;-)
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"Are you on the Distributed Computing Map?"]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2819776 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:16:01 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2818037 --
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I love the smell of a new CPU crunching in the morning! ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815831 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:07:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815685
1)-Computer starts up
2)-Copies file from 'fixed hd' dir to ramdrive
3)-Starts the given exe (selected in the process list)
4)-Folds..Folds..folds..
5)-Copies files when computer shuts down.

Maybe it would be wise to copy the files every as well, xx hours, since you never know :)
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815685 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:42:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815533 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815533 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:10:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815339
Also, if you find any bugs, or have any wishes... (like copy files from dest to source at startup), I'll be here every now and then... :D
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815339 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:38:09 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815294 Oh, that's a nice idea! I was using RAMDisks as well for awhile, and also kept falling into the reset trap. This should really help!

Thanks!

-Matt]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815294 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:30:36 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815271
Now that sounds good? Well, there is one negative thing about this RAM disk... if you reset, WITHOUT saving back the files in the ram disk (just from explorer to another logical/physical HD), all the data will be lost. Now, if you're like me in the fast world, you'll forget to do that, wasting your just 4*35min folded frames of ProteinA :)

That's why I've made a nice small program, which uses a small amount of memory, and doesn't take up too much cycles either (ie: it doesn't show even a second of time in taskmanager). This program allows you to select a process, a "source dir" and a "destination" directory. if you shutdown the select process (ranging from folding to any other program), it will copy the files from the source dir to the dest. dir.

The program is in VB6 (and will only run on Windows platforms), so you might need the dll's... if people are really interested in the program, I might port it to ASM someday... I've included the source as well in the zip. (So if you want to see how to get the process list, it might be interesting for you as well :))

My program: (also containing some important additional info for the ram disk usage/installation! So make sure you read the readme file)
»quadrantwars.dnsalias.ne ··· disk.zip

The Ramdisk driver (100% free):
»www.arsoft-online.de/pro ··· ramdisk/

I hope anyone is interested in it... The RAM disk has many advantages imo, and it works for me :)

Regards,
Almar
Programmer Quadrant Wars
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AsyncTea]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/RAM-Disk-mover-utility-2815271 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:25:26 EDT