Hi LanMan.
Thanks for the hello in the MVC thread, I have cut WAY WAY back on my AT surfing as of late as I feel I've dropped the ball on a lot of things for you guys and feel extremly guilty about it basicly made a liar out of myself not deliberatly but because there arn't enough hours in a day and I tend to over extend myself. (AT game server, FAQ's, Websites, ect. ect. ect.) and some other things such as some attitudes in other forums here, the removal of the subscriber feature, anand refusing to talk to me about the store which I've spent going on 4 years now working on (tho admittantly not a whole lot of time considering, or I would be a little more then irriatated by the whole shebang.) but I won't go any further in to that here as it's not the place to do so.
Exactly what type of ram is it? DRAM SDRAM PC66 100 133...some propritary crap from compaq ECC? non-ECC? that would really help us give you a more clear idea as to possible uses for it. you probably could turn it in to some type of ram drive array, I fear you might be limited by the amount of memory a standard desktop can support (most max out at 2 gigs if they are that old ((I'm almost positive they all do))) servers have a higher threshold.
As far as Overkiller's proposal I did a quickie on google and there is no evidence that such a device even exists doesn't mean its not out there somewhere but the great google gods seem to think otherwise. Just for reference Overkiller, the PCI bus and the memory bus in a computer system are basicly completely different subsystems of a mainboard, both have access to the CPU via direct connections, however the PCI bus never communicates directly with the memory bus, it ALWAYS goes through the CPU. also to have such a device on your PCI bus would seriously bottleneck your PCI system and your computer in general as memory access is very frequent as well as very large (in terms of when you get that far down into the code ((at the machine level))) so putting a memory type device like that on your PCI bus is probably a bad idea if you plan on using it much.
You might have a little fun setting up a bunch of junker mother boards network them together and figure out how to make ram drives from linux floppies with NIC drivers and string them all together via NFS, then connect them into a main linux box and have a kind of bewolf ramdrive going on. I don't know if thats even been done before or if its possible but its a wack idea
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anyways, have a great New Year and I'll see you all around.
How to make a ramdrive in Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server, Data Center, Windows XP home, professional, Windows Server 2003 ect...
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