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From: gerten@informatik.uni-kl.de (Rainer Gerten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS 4.01 bug ??
Summary: Look at the P254 and P255 !
Keywords: EMS-Usage for Buffers/X and Append /X
Message-ID: <7703@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
Date: 5 Apr 91 12:03:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.161103.10405@fwi.uva.nl>
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Reply-To: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de (Rainer Gerten)
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany
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In article <1991Apr3.161103.10405@fwi.uva.nl> (Onno van der Linden) writes:
>
>device=\system\emm386.sys 2432 
                                P254=??? P255=???
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                You have to specify these
                                params (with appropriate values)

Look at the specification for emm386 and the needs for the
two special page, which are used by dos for buffers, append etc.

>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

I hope, this helps.

Rainer Gerten
University of Kaiserslautern
Department of Computer Science
D-6750 Kaiserslautern
Germany
mail: gerten@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de