On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:15, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:45:13 -0600, Michael Devore wrote: > > > Second problem report: UDMA. Unfortunately UDMA 7.0 fails on my system > > across the board, although it finds the controller and identifies it > > plus the two drives. Under both HIMEM with and without EMM386, all four > > DMA tests fail and the driver does not load. Under a bare conventional > > memory system without HIMEM (or EMM386 obviously), UDMA kicks out an > > illegal opcode or locks the machine in a "missing command interpreter" > > loop. So, the sad state of affairs is that any EMM386 incompatibility > > with UDMA is going to stay since UDMA doesn't work for me. > > UDMA requires VDS in V86 mode. Without XMS driver it can't do its tests > and loads but fails.
I seem to remember that network adapters may need VDS also ... I remember having issues with 3com's packet drivers for 3c509 not working with EMM386 loaded, but the ones from crynwr worked because they dont' do any funky stuff. Regards, Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
