[Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05, if you have problems...

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Devore
If you have any problems with EMM386 2.05, try the unofficial release emmflesh.zip at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 as it has a couple of relatively minor fixes in the EMM386.EXE file that will affect some users. Be aware that this unofficial version is not EXE compressed in siz

Re: [Freedos-user] MEM (with PC Tools output format)

2005-09-20 Thread David O'Shea
G'day Johnson, From: Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:52:24 +0800 [..] I noticed lots of users (especially in China) still stick to 'PC Tools Memory Information v9 (MI)'. Is it too old to report correct information from FreeDOS's memory managers or UMB information?

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:05 PM 9/19/2005 -0700, Brolin wrote: Firstly, I have not tested this new release. That said, what is the status with regards to having FastTracker II working on FreeDOS? FastTracker 2.08 runs fine for me under latest HIMEM and EMM386. PKUNZIP failing unless the NOEMS option is specified

[Freedos-user] Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:01 PM 9/19/2005 -0500, I wrote: This version of EMM386 has a number of compatibility changes to enhance operability with a variety of DOS applications and environments without the need for advanced option tweaking. As a result of the seven changes to EMM386 and two changes to HIMEM, thi

[Freedos-user] MEM

2005-09-20 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I noticed lots of users (especially in China) still stick to 'PC Tools Memory Information v9 (MI)'. Is it too old to report correct information from FreeDOS's memory managers or UMB information? Since it's layout is neat and clean, I suggest to make a new layout of MEM which similar to 'MI',

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update Bug Report

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel Quintiliani
Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > MEM (1.6) itself is broken, get 1.7beta or 1.8alpha > both available at: http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/mem > > Please report back if that solves your UMB Corruption error or not. > > Bernd > Thank you, MEM 1.7beta works fine. -Dan ---

Re: [Freedos-user] re: EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Eric, On the other hand, SCSI does seem to have odd properties which we should analyze some more. Remember that LBACACHE requires the TUNS option for some SCSI systems when you loadhigh LBACACHE: TUNS allocates stack space in low RAM, as some unknown quirk makes SCSI BIOSes fail on int 13 cal

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Michael, Nope, there are documented instances of SCSI drivers being incompatible with VDS. Sure, but as I understand it, this VDS problem will occurr even when there's NO driver loaded (e.g. pure INT13)? In those cases, they share the same interrupt and potentially the same register val

[Freedos-user] Error message "Not enough DCBs"...

2005-09-20 Thread Andre Tertling
Hi there, I am using a freedos-based boot disk and now I encountered that on a machine with quite a number of drives and partitions, the ramdisk driver crashes with "Not enough DCBs". Is there a way to increase the number of DCBs with a parameter in config.sys or similar? Or can I compile a custo

[Freedos-user] re: EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, VDS question time... So the only reason why you have to turn off VDS on some SCSI system is that the interfaces overlap (use the same interrupt / register values)? If so, it should be possible to autodetect that case. But I assume there are other cases where VDS must be turned off to mak