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From: wnbell@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (William Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: AMI bios
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Date: 14 Nov 89 02:58:04 GMT
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 Hi! I am using AMI BIOS (c)1989 on my '386. I have a problem and a quick

question. 1st I am using the Seagate ST277R-1 65MB RLL Hard Drive, and
the 1:1 Controller from WD (WD1006SR2). I looked at my CMOS setup the other
day and the Disk Type was #10 which means:
Type = 10, Cylinders=820, Heads=3, Write-precomp=NONE, LZ=820,Capacity=21 MB.

But my Seagate says: (ST277R)
Capacity=65MB, Read/Write Heads=6, Data Cylinders=820, Access Time=40msec,
Write Precompensation==N/A.

I have not had any problems with using type 10. Why? I was going to
try Type 47 (userdefined), I could set everything but the capacity.
That seems to be stuck at a fixed value of 27 or so. SHould I change it???

My question:
I saw an option to change CMOS to have "Shadow RAM". I can enable
BIOS Shadow RAm, EGA Shadow RAM, and Interleave Memory.
Should I enable all 3 types?pes??? What does Shadow RAM mean? BIOS
Shadow RAM seemed to speed up the CPU.

Also, I have 1MB installed. The computer BIOS at BOOT-UP checks
from 0-1024KB, but I cannot get use from 640K-1MB. I tried
the emm.sys that comes with MSDOS 4.01 but it says memory is not
available. I know this memory is called expanded memory.
I want to command.com in a ramdisk in this memory to
speed up shelling to DOS, etc... How do I do this??
I tried enabling between 640K-1MB in CMOS, but I get 8 beeps when I
boot up (and must change this back)....



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