You could always right a test file to the volume, measure the time it took,
and assume RAM disk for ridiculously low times. 

I know it's a bad idea, but I seem to recall it being very difficult to even
tell if a volume is a FLOPPY!! (or maybe it was difficult to tell a CD ROM) So
what are people supposed to do?

> >What about checking for volumes, the size of the volume may give it
> >away.  I can't think of any other attributes of a volume that might give
> >you a clue it's a ram disk.
> 
> bad idea
> 
> WHere do you draw the line in size. Steve Wozniak in a delicious interview
> in a recent macTech mentionned that he had 1Go of RAM on his machine
> and frequently made a Ram disk of 650 Mo for CD ROM games !!!!!!!!!
> 
> jonathan-