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From: chaz@chinet.chi.il.us (Charlie Kestner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DR-DOS 5.0 Memory Management....Help!
Keywords: DR-DOS
Message-ID: <1991May31.024432.13032@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 31 May 91 02:44:32 GMT
References: <4798@cocoa46.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <4798@cocoa46.UUCP> reichert@motcid.UUCP (Chuck KD9JQ) writes:
>
>	I,ve been trying for months to get DR-DOLS 5.0 EMM386.SYS to work with
>no luck.  Tried QEMM's QEMM.SYS with no problems, but when setting up EMM386
>for same memory allocation, it crashes at bootup with scrambled screen and 
>"protection" statement.  Even loading up as a bare manager without installing
>drivers, TSR's high causes same problem. 
>
>	The only difference I noticed is EMM386 will only work above C800 and
>EMM386 will load itself high.  Taking this into consideration I still have the
>problem.  Excluding gives me a stupid message stating on how to use the
>statement, Include, Use don't help, etc. etc.
>
>	If anyone has gotten this to work I'd appreciate a copy of your
>
>EMM386.SYS /E=  /I=  /U=  /F=  /B= /R= etc.  settings and how much useable
>memory you get.
>
>	I'm using an AMI 386  25Mhz  64k Cache  Motherboard (Mark 1) with the
>latest AMI Bios.
>

  Go back to using QEMM, and use HIDOS.SYS - I used that combination,
and went from 587K to 602K.
  Just be sure to put the device=hidos.sys AFTER the initial device=
qemm.sys