T128 not found
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Tom,
If you are using expanded memory you must put a memory exclude address
to avoid conflict with memory used by the T128.
For QEMM the command line would read:
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM X=CC00-CDFF DISKBUF=8
Regards .. Tom
Thanks,
I am not using QEMM (though I wish I WAS!) but Dos and EMM386.
I set the following config.sys lines:
DEVICE=C:\NECCDR.SYS /D:NECCD
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /e:512 /p
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE x=cc00-d000 ram
LASTDRIVE=S
…
…
and it appears to work at boot, but when I do a DIr S:, I get this:
CDR103: CDROM not High Sierra or ISO-9660 format reading drive S
Abort, Retry, Fail?
now, keeping mind that everything worked BEFORE…
what is causing this "incompatibility" msg.
David Kohn responded to me in EMAIL nad solved the mystery.
The NEC manual refers to switch positions 1-4 and says they are
"reserved" and should remain off….
Well, aparently not, in my case… switch 4 controls handshaking,
according Mr. Kohn, and once I set it ON, the drive appears to
work fine.
Tom:
Thanks for sharing that solution with us! Thus,folks, another good reason for
keeping replies on the Forum whenever possible – everybody wins, and that's the
whole idea!
Best – Rich
Tom,
Here are a few suggestions:
1) Have you checked your BIOS settings. Have a look at the "advanced
settings" and ensure that CC00 has not been enabled. AMI bios has a
setting that does something to Adaptor ROM areas. To get into the BIOS
settings you might have to tape DEL during start up. Be carefull that
you do not change your hard disk type. Make a note of the hard disk
type, heads, cyl, sectors, this should be written down and kept in a
safe place, just in case your computer one day looses it's settings.
2) Why don't you load DOS into high memory?
I suggest that you modify your CONFIG.SYS to read as follows:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE X=CC00-CDFF RAM
DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
LASTDRIVE=S
SHELL=C:\COMMAMD.COM /P /E:512
FILES=50
BUFFERS=16
3) I need to know what your MSCDEX command line says. This might be
causing the problem. I would suggest that it reads:
MSCDEX /M:4 /D:NECCD /E /L:S
Regards .. Tom
Thanks…it turned out to be switch 4 on the t128 card.
(the config.sys I up'ld was just a piece…I have DOS and 8 tsr's loaded
high, along with a DOS 6 multi-boot setup)
Everything works fine now!
thanks all