Ah, yes, ... :-) Try emm386 without the VDS argument and under no circumstances run FreeDOS FDISK unless you want to risk an erased partition table.
OK I ran the tests again, after taking out VDS everything is working normally, FDISK /INFO reports the correct partition sizes and luckily my computer still works (I'm typing this message on it).
Regarding LBACACHE TUNS, it's exactly the same as under UMBPCI, it's loads high with no problems and no timeouts. Below is the memory map and the FDCONFIG.SYS
Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total Conventional Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- SYSTEM 14,928 (15K) 9,696 (9K) 5,232 (5K) HIMEM 2,544 (2K) 2,544 (2K) 0 (0K) EMM386 3,360 (3K) 3,360 (3K) 0 (0K) COMMAND 3,984 (4K) 2,944 (3K) 1,040 (1K) KEYB 1,760 (2K) 1,760 (2K) 0 (0K) SHSUCDX 5,808 (6K) 5,808 (6K) 0 (0K) VIDE-CDD 5,024 (5K) 0 (0K) 5,024 (5K) RAMDRIVE 1,392 (1K) 0 (0K) 1,392 (1K) LBACACHE 7,360 (7K) 0 (0K) 7,360 (7K) DISPLAY 11,648 (11K) 0 (0K) 11,648 (11K) CTMOUSE 3,328 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,328 (3K) Free 714,896 (698K) 627,008 (612K) 87,888 (86K) Memory Type Total Used Free ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Conventional 638K 26K 612K Upper 120K 34K 86K Reserved 266K 266K 0K Extended (XMS) 261,104K 202,303K 58,801K ---------------- -------- -------- -------- Total memory 262,128K 202,629K 59,499K Total under 1 MB 758K 60K 698K Largest executable program size 612K (626,720 bytes) Largest free upper memory block 86K ( 87,616 bytes) FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area. -- FDCONFIG.SYS STARTS HERE -- ;device=special\fdxms.sys DEVICE=DRIVER\HIMEM.EXE /NOABOVE16 /X ; rem removed VDS from line below DEVICE=SPECIAL\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST /verbose ; rem UMBPCI found to be more stable on every system tested ;device=other\umbpci.sys rem Load the SCSI for 29160N card ;device=other\aspi8u2.sys /d rem UDMA hard drives ;DEVICE=DRIVER\UDMA2.SYS DEVICEhigh=OTHER\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:FDCD0000 devicehigh=OTHER\ramdrive.sys 4096 512 1024 /e ;devicehigh=OTHER\ifshlp.sys rem lbacache tuns switch is needed for SCSI and UMBPCI INSTALLhigh=DRIVER\LBACACHE.COM SHELL=COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /F /MSG /P=.\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT DOSDATA=UMB DOS=high,UMB FILES=20 BUFFERS=20 LASTDRIVE=Z -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
