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From: linden@fwi.uva.nl (Onno van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: MSDOS 4.01 bug ??
Summary: smartdrv.sys vs. buffers=20/x
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Date: 3 Apr 91 16:11:03 GMT
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 Hi,

 Take a look at this config.sys:

files=30
stacks=0,0
country=31,,\system\country.sys
shell=system\command.com c:\system /p
device=\system\emm386.sys 2432
rem buffers in expanded memory
buffers=20/x
rem cache in expanded memory
device=\system\smartdrv.sys /a

 Only an example,but it gives "Error in CONFIG.SYS line 7" after startup.
The error will appear with smartdrive version 2.10 (comes with msdos 4.01)
and smartdrive version 3.03 (comes with windows3).The order of the buffers=
and the smartdrv.sys statement doesn't matter (they should both be after the
expanded memory manager).
 The error will not appear if you use buffers=20 instead of buffers=20/x.
This brings me to the $0.02 question:
 Who is to blame for this behaviour:smartdrv.sys,msdos 4.01 or me ?

Onno van der Linden
linden@fwi.uva.nl