>>I wanted to keep windows swap file on the ram drive?
>>Is it possible.
>>Please help me.
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>What I do is use an old 'small' drive for my swap file. I have a 170Mb or 270Mb drive in each of my PCs at home dedicated for windows swap file.

It's certainly a usable approach; I do something similar, allocating a partition on one drive under Win9x, and preallocating a sufficiently large swap file to avoid fragmentation/growth issues (and to dodge the ever-annoying message that I'm runnoing out of disk space on my swap drive.

There are several drawbacks to using a separate IDE drive, especially on the same IDE channel. IDE isn't a terribly smart interface; the communications mode for a channel is determined by the -least- capable device on the channel. IOW, if you have a new UltraDMA33 drive and an old original IDE drive, everything will talk at the capability of the old IDE drive. If you're going to use a separate drive for a swap file and it isn't as capable as the main drive, put it on the secondary IDE channel.

Also, IDE only allows one I/O operation to be in process on a channel at any given time - again, having the swap drive and main drive on separate channels will allow swap activity to take place without impacting I/O on the main drive.

SCSI negotiates transfer modes on a device by device basis; you can have a mix of SCSI devices on the same channel, and the operating mode is determined for each device separately. Also, SCSI allows multiple I/O operations to be in progress on the SCSI bus at the same time, making better use of the bus bandwidth.