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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Permanent Swap File Problems
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.175430.1923@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 4 Sep 90 17:54:30 GMT
References: <12762@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Aug21.080823.10815@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <33470@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <33470@cup.portal.com> Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes:
>Greetings!
> 
>I'm having problems setting up a permenant swap file.  
>When I try to run swapfile while in real mode from within Windows, 
>it tells me there is an incompatible driver in my config.sys file.
>I've tried disabling all the devices in the config.sys file.  
>Here is what I have:
> 
>files = 30
>buffers = 10
>device =C:\dos\himem.sys
>shell =C:\command.com C:\ /e:320 /p
>device =C:\dos\dmdrvr.bin 
>device =C:\dos\ansi.sys
>device =C:\dos\fastbios.sys
>device =C:\util\vga\rambios.sys
>device =C:\dos\smartdrv.sys 2048 512
>device =C:\mouse1\mouse.sys
> 
>And here is my autoexec.bat file:
> 
>prompt $p$g
>PATH =C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINWORD;C:\DOS;C:\UTIL;C:\UTIL\BATCH;C:\UTIL\EC;
>C:\UTIL\NORTON;C:\QDOS;D:\;D:\TOOLBOOK;D:\ARCHIVE
>sa bright white on blue 
>c:\UTIL\TSR\mapmem
>set TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
>win
> 
> 
>Any suggestions?
> 

I think your problem is "dmdrvr.bin". This is a third party disk management
utility to allow using disks > 1024 cylinders and/or > 32 Mb partitions.

Windows 3.0 has difficulty with these, particularly with permanent swap files.


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