#more monitor debugging
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Brian,
Well, I found out the cause of the error. Somehow the memory
manager with my OS was messing up the bootup, perhaps with incorrect
parameters. Things work fine with the memory manager or with the
Janus driver.
Anyway, I have more exploring to do!
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
'Perfessor Fearless' from the Rocket City!
via AutoPilot 1.03a
awhile? How much comppatibility with title from other interactive
machines? [D I have never been an IBM fan but they are venturing into
cd rom technology in a big big way.
Ron,
I haven't tried anything on the IDE connection yet. (I need to
refill my piggy bank.) I haven't even tested the extra parallel and
serial ports yet. Fortunately, the small 13" multisync works fine.
The memory manager that came with DRDOS 6.0 was clobbering the 386
bridgeboard (BB). Evidently, upper memory is sensitive to
unauthorized or unknowing poking around! Running the BB with no
memory manager or with the Janus EMM.SYS works. I wish I could get
some more memory freed up in conventional memory. My SuperStor
driver from Addstor takes up 50K. Norton Commander V3.0 takes up
12K. Anyway, I cannot run WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS in graphics mode
due to lack of memory. At least it runs nicely in text mode. I
cannot use an alternate configuration in which I don't use the
Addstor compression software because WordPerfect is on the compressed
D: drive. I left my boot drive C: uncompressed just in case I had
trouble with the SuperStor stuff.
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
'Perfessor Fearless' from the Rocket City!
via AutoPilot 1.03a
Gayle:
Lucky I didn't try the DRDOS 6 memory manager. I stuck with the one that
came with the Bridgeboard, EMM.SYS. However, I *have* been running the DR
DOS HIDOS.SYS and HIDOS drivers without trouble and together they seem to
help performance AND they let you move stuff out of the lower 640K,
including buffers (use HIBUFFERS) and other stuff that normally can't load
anywhere but lower memory. Check it out. I've got 5 megs of ZIPs on my BB
and when all is said and loaded the DR DOS Mem utility reports:
Total Available
Conventional 640K 615K
Upper 16K 2.6K
High 64K 8.0K
Extended 4096K 0K
Ext. via XMS N/A 4032K
EMS 636K 262K
This is with the 256K VGA video on the STB board. You can also use the
HIDOS command to grab some video memory, but it probably bumps you down to
EGA mode; haven't tried it with this board, but it worked with an earlier
VGA card just fine, giving me a 704K base system.
I wonder what'll happen when I up to Novell DOS 7.0? maybe the Bridgeboard
won't work with its memory manager either. Wouldn't be the end of the
world.
I haven't tried Superstor on the IDE drive, as I'm suspicious of it. What
are you running Superstor on if you aren't using the IDE controller?
BTW, you should bite the bullet and upgrade to Autopilot 1.061. Much nicer
in many respects (like a message thread feature to locate stuff fast) and
the GIF on-line viewer. Seems to run a tad faster, too.
Ron,
I don't have Novell 7 although I have been over to the NDSG forum.
It may be shipping; however, I have not gotten any upgrade notice.
I am using SuperStor on the D: drive of my hardcard which has two
20 Meg harddrives on it. (Marion Deland can tell you what to look
for.) I left the C: drive uncompressed just in case SuperStor gave
me a problem since C: is my boot drive. Before the hardcard, I had
successfully used the SuperStor utility on the MAKEAB
pseudo-harddrive. It works there, too! Of course, the hardcard
supersedes the emulation of the MAKEAB drive. I have not connected
anything to the IDE controller as of yet. The extra parallel port
and serial port have not been tested yet, either. Now I do have the
ports hooked up.
I would love to see a copy of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files! Or, at least the part that pertains to HIDOS.SYS and EMM.SYS.
Presently, I am just using the EMM.SYS driver. Are you saying that
I can use it with the DRDOS HIDOS.SYS driver?
I would use Autopilot 1.061 if it didn't crash my system whenever I
attempted to use the message reader or the editor. I got tired of
rebooting and losing whatever else was running. The crashes even wiped
out RAD:!
Here is my MEM /A output:
Address DBD Owner DDBD Size DBD Type
0:0000 ——– A0000h, 655,360 ————- RAM
0:0000 ——– 400h, 1,024 Interrupt vectors
40:0000 ——– 100h, 256 ROM BIOS data area
50:0000 DR DOS 200h, 512 DOS data area
70:0000 DR BIOS B60h, 2,912 Device drivers
70:050B PRN Built-in device driver
70:051D LPT1 Built-in device driver
70:052F LPT2 Built-in device driver
70:0541 LPT3 Built-in device driver
70:0553 AUX Built-in device driver
70:0565 COM1 Built-in device driver
70:0577 COM2 Built-in device driver
70:0589 COM3 Built-in device driver
70:059B COM4 Built-in device driver
70:0602 CLOCK$ Built-in device driver
70:0645 CON Built-in device driver
70:0671 A:-D: Built-in device driver
126:0000 DR DOS 11B0h, 4,528 System
126:0048 NUL Built-in device driver
241:0000 DR DOS 20EE0h, 134,880 System
253:0000 EMMXXXX0 3880h, 14,464 Loadable device driver
5DC:0000 E: CB90h, 52,112 Loadable device driver (SStor)
1296:0000 CON 1020h, 4,128 Loadable device driver
1399:0000 F: 820h, 2,080 Loadable device driver
141C:0000 G:-J: C60h, 3,168 Loadable device driver
1543:0000 DR DOS 2800h, 10,240 20 Disk buffers
17C0:15C0 DR DOS DE0h, 3,552 DR DOS BIOS code
16FA:3000 DR DOS 9440h, 37,952 DR DOS kernel code
232F:0000 COMMAND 1590h, 5,520 Program
24A9:0000 COMMAND 80h, 128 Data
24B1:0000 AMOUSE C0h, 192 Environment
24BD:0000 DELWATCH 13D0h, 5,072 Program
25FA:0000 AMOUSE 16E0h, 5,856 Program
2768:0000 INSTALL C0h, 192 Environment
2774:0000 INSTALL 600h, 1,536 Program
27D4:0000 PRSWAP C0h, 192 Environment
27E0:0000 PRSWAP 180h, 384 Program
27F8:0000 NC B0h, 176 Environment
2803:0000 ——– 10h, 16 FREE
2804:0000 VSHIELD 66F0h, 26,352 Program
2E73:0000 NC 3270h, 12,912 Program
319A:0000 COMMAND C0h, 192 Data
31A6:0000 COMMAND 1590h, 5,520 Program
32FF:0000 COMMAND 110h, 272 Environment
3310:0000 MEM C0h, 192 Environment
331C:0000 MEM 13AE0h, 80,608 Program
46CA:0000 ——– 59360h, 365,408 FREE
C000:0000 ——– 8000h, 32,768 ————- ROM
C800:0000 ——– 2000h, 8,192 ————- ROM
D400:0000 ——– 2000h, 8,192 ————- ROM
E000:0000 EMS 10000h, 65,536 ———- EMS memory
F000:0000 ——– 10000h, 65,536 ————- ROM
Conventional memory
0h 10000h 20000h 30000h 40000h 50000h 60000h 70000h
0K 64K 128K 192K 256K 320K 384K 448K
| | | | | | | |
2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
2222222222222222…………….11111…..1…..[[[[[[[[11111111
| | | | | | | 4
512K 576K 640K 704K 768K 832K 896K 960K 1MB
80000h 90000h A0000h B0000h C0000h D0000h E0000h F0000h 100000h
Upper memory
Key: 2=RAM 1=ROM 0=Shadow ROM [=EMS
Memory Type BDD Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) DB DDD Available
Conventional 655,360 ( 640K ) 446,192 ( 435K )
Extended 4,194,304 ( 4,096K ) 3,145,728 ( 3,072K )
EMS 671,744 ( 656K ) 212,992 ( 208K )
via AutoPilot 1.03a
Gayle,
your continuing trials with AutoPilot still perplex me. Have you tried
running Enforcer (without Quiet) to see what kind of hits are generated?
It doesn't make sense since it runs on this bastard installation here just
fine.
"You do trust me, don't you? Of course you do."
— "To Play the King" (BBC)
Here's my A2386 config.sys followed by a partial MEM /A dump:
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /E:512 /MH
device=c:\janus\EMM.SYS EXCLUDE=D000-DFFF FULLDISPLAY TEST SHOWOPTIONS
DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\HIDOS.SYS
HIDOS=ON
BREAK=ON
FILES=125
LASTDRIVE=E
HISTORY= ON,256,ON
COUNTRY=001,850,C:\DRDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
HIBUFFERS = 40
HIDEVICE=D:\TOOLS\VSAFE.SYS /1+/2-/3+/4-/5-/6-/7+/8- [VIRUS CHECKER]
< Conventional memory >
0h 10000h 20000h 30000h 40000h 50000h 60000h 70000h
0K 64K 128K 192K 256K 320K 384K 448K
| | | | | | | |
222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222
222222222222222222………….111111…..1….[[[[[[[[[[111111111
| | | | | | | | |
512K 576K 640K 704K 768K 832K 896K 960K 1MB
80000h 90000h A0000h B0000h C0000h D0000h E0000h F0000h 100000h
< Upper memory >
Key: 2=RAM 1=ROM 0=Shadow ROM [=EMS
Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available
Conventional 654,336 ( 639K ) 616,432 ( 601K )
Upper 16,384 ( 16K ) 2,576 ( 2K )
High 65,520 ( 64K ) 8,240 ( 8K )
Extended 4,194,304 ( 4,096K ) 0 ( 0K )
Extended via XMS N/A 4,128,768 ( 4,032K )
EMS 671,744 ( 656K ) 262,144 ( 256K )
Ron,
Thanks! Yours and Steve Kapplin's messages may help me to make better
use of the bridgeboard memory!
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
'Perfessor Fearless' from the Rocket City!
via AutoPilot 1.03a