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To: Len who wrote (1842)8/2/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: AJ Berger   of 14778
 
Advice Exchange for Simulating CDROM's on Hard Drives

There used to be a CDROM Simulation Program from MicroTest
but the fools took it off the market for no appherent reason
other than it may have been competeing with their own
CD-ROM tower products...

I've spent a considerable amount of time making Hard Drive
partitions work like CDROMS and can contribute some insights.
Experiment with 1019kb and 516kb partitions. If your CDROM
has a few thousend LARGE files, 516 may be enough. If it has
Tens of thousends of SMALL files, then 1019 should be used.
A very handy program for building multiple partition hard
drive CDROM simulations is Partition Magic, which allows you
to resize and even move partitions and unused space along
your hard drives storage area.

Remember to adjust your LASTDRIVE = ? statement to reflect
the total number of partitions created, and the CDROM itself.
I've never tried compression with hard drive partitions, but
I imagine it will work fine as long as you have enough RAM.
If anyone reading this has a better CDROM simulation program,
especially one with compression and block size management,
I'd really like to hear about it, preferably something more
commercial like MicroTest, then just a risky shareware item.
If anyone HAS that MicroTest CDROM simulation software, and
would like to sell me their copy, please Email me privately.
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