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From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: DOS 5: Problem with EMM386.EXE and
Message-ID: <283400154@adaptx1>
Date: 20 Jun 91 07:37:43 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptx1.UUCP!neese    Jun 19 17:55:00 1991


>/* ---------- "DOS 5: Problem with EMM386.EXE and" ---------- */
>Installing DOS 5 on a machine with a 1542B SCSI controller,
>I have a problem with EMM386.EXE. It doesnt work. System
>crashes as soon as you try to put something in a UMB, such
>as loading RAMDRIVE using devicehigh. Similar problem also
>seen with a 1740 EISA SCSI.
>
>I have tried mapping out various bits of high memory, but
>to no effect. Devices are configured at the default 1542 BIOS
>addresses.

Have you loaded the ASPI4DOS driver?  Does EMM386.EXE support the VDS (INT4B)
spec?  If it does you won't need a local buffer, but you will need ASPI4DOS
loaded as it can deal with memory managers that do/don't support the VDS spec.

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer
			UUCP @  neese@adaptex
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