#Trantor T13BSCSI.ADD
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Hello –
I've just inherited a T128 and I'm having difficulty getting it to work
properly. When I access the drive and run TREE, it goes part of the way and
then stops to tell me I've got an invalid path. I'm running QEMM with lots of
things loaded high. Are there any known conflicts with other TSR's loaded
high? I've tried it with the MSCDEX from 1990 that was on the software disk and
I've tried it with the copy I've got from 1993 (2.21). Any suggestions?
Mark
This is Mark again. I spoke with someone at Trantor today and he suggested
that I try booting with a floppy. I've done that with system files that do
nothing but set the prompt, files, buffers and the CDROM drivers and I get the
same problem. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
Mark
Dear Mark: I recently installed a T128 card into my system using QEMM. Iwas
difficu to establish compatability with my system (Gateway 2000 486DX2-66) and
avoid conflicts with the video and modem cards and access the CDROM drive while
using Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0. My initial conversations with NEC and
Quaterdeck (Makers of QEMM) suggested that I exclude the memory address of the
T128 card form the QEMM programs ability to accidently write over the areas
during system boot up. This solved the problem and made everything compatable.
I would suggest that you modify your config.sys line one to read: "
device=c:\qemm\qemm386.sys RAM x=cc00-cdff dB=10" The "x=cc00-cdff" statement
will protect the default (assuming you haven't changed the DIP switches on the
T-128 card) addresses the T-128 uses. The "db=10" statement allocates 10 disk
buffers within QEMM that will speed up CDROM access. With regard to the issue
of loading everything high in you config.sys and autoexec.bat files, I
discovered that the MSCDEX in the autoexec.bat file gives fastest CDROM disk
performance if it is loaded "low" ( or without the loadhi commands). I have
gained great respect for the task of adding hardware to a computer system- it
can take weeks to get it to run correctly. regards, brian