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Ram Disk Usage
Authored by: Frankie on Jun 18, '02 05:54:31PM

Thanks for the info on creating a ram disk. My problem is that I want to do distributed computing on my machine without having the hard drive grinding away continuously. In OS 9, I could load the SETI-at-Home files onto a ram disk and shut down the hard drive while it was running data sets. In trying to run Distributed Folding (which I recommend as a worthy enterprise) from the Terminal, the Terminal doesn't seem to want to access, or even to recognize, the ram disk or its contents.
Does anyone know how to get the OS X Terminal program to read/write files that are not on the primary HD?



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