Subj : How to detect RAM disks (Was: how to detect cdrom?)
To   : Klaus Meinhard
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Fri Mar 01 2002 11:58 pm

Hello Klaus,

    Subject:  How to detect RAM disks (Was: how to detect cdrom?)
    On Friday March 01 2002 at 09:02,
    Klaus Meinhard wrote to Gerald Miller:

 >> When you know a device is installed and you know the name, then
 >> you should be able to conduct the test for a drive letter.  From
 >> what I've been able to determine, you are likely to get "false
 >> positive" results if you test for the presence of a label and I
 >> was trying to bring that fact to attention.

 KM> even the existence of a driver in memory is no sure sign
 KM> that a ramdisk exists. Resizable ramdisks might possibly be
 KM> set to 0 bytes or just lurk in mem waiting for the user to
 KM> set up a ramdisk via command line.

The possibility of developing a utility to detect [ALL] RAM
disk(s) may be *next* to impossible (given the number of methods
available to install RAM disks) and that may explain why
Microsoft (or others) have not released such a tool...

           Cheers ... Gerald

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