Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!husc4!whitney From: whitney@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (glen whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: AT formatting problem Message-ID: <2624@husc6.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:28:46 EDT Article-I.D.: husc6.2624 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:28:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 08:47:09 EDT References: <2598@husc6.UUCP> <455@bucket.UUCP> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: whitney@husc4.UUCP (glen whitney) Distribution: world Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 15 In article <455@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes: >is due to FORMAT not checking to see if any of the many buffers it apparently >needs span a 64k boundary. Supposedly this causes DMA problems. > Alll I know is that we have the same problem on some machines running >DOS 3.1. It can be solved by changing the number of buffers in CONFIG.SYS Do you happen to know if this problem is fixed in DOS 3.3? -- whitney@husc4.harvard.edu (ARPANET) whitney@husc4.UUCP (UUCP) ..!harvard!husc4!whitney (also UUCP) 72770,2020 (CIS) "You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"