Path: utzoo!utdoe!ontmoh!rwh
From: rwh@ontmoh.UUCP (Russell Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: QEMM and SCSI host adaptors
Message-ID: <662257973.4180@ontmoh.UUCP>
Date: Thu Dec 27 00:32:53 GMT 1990
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of Health -- GOMIG BBS, Toronto, Canada
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In article <4679@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> chuck@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (Chuck Rickard) writes:
> Some of the people I work with have come to the conclusion that QEMM 5.1 does
> not work with either WP 5.1 or Quattro Pro.  They run on 386's, without
> any multitasking software (at least when tracing down problems.)  I don't
> know if it works unreliably or if it just plain doesn't work.  But I will
> say that it may be premature to blame your SCSI controller.

Well, here's somebody who runs WP5.1 just fine with QEMM5.11 and DESQview2.31.
It's PIF loads it with the /r and /nf toggles on (as well as /mono in my
configuration), with 400K base memory and a 768K cap on expanded memory.  The
date on my WP version is 3/1/90 - there have been maintenance releases, but
I don't know whether any of it would be relevant to Chuck's problem.

Mixing SCSIs and QEMM is a bit tricky.  You have to find out where the SCSI
bios is hiding and exclude it.  You may also need to use the DISKBUF= toggle
on the QEMM (try values of 2 or 3).  My own experience with this was
unsatisfactory for different reasons: I need to load DECNET drivers up there.
The SCSI block fragmented my high RAM too much for me to fit them completely.
I no longer sanction SCSI peripherals for use with networked PCs.  For non-
networked they should be usable, but takes a bit of fiddling.
-- 

Disclaimer: Only the Minister speaks for the Ministry of Health, not me.

Russell Herman
...!lsuc!ontmoh!rwh
Microcomputer Support Specialist
Ontario Ministry of Health
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