Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/30/19:48:40
I don't think so, I still believe it is somehow related to the "dpmi" and
you could try dpmi=off before running any certain program that gives you an
error to see if that error remains!
Mark
On 2000-10-29 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
>Last time I used Norton's Wipe it literally did just that.
>It cleaned off the formatting on the partition on the
>hard drive and on the floppies I used it on.
>Since Norton's Wipe program is the military strength (Times ten)
>data eraser it should be used carefully. I originally thought that
>it only wrote X's in each and every empty data bit position on
>the disk ten times but it may have been having a problem with
>entries in the fat which were supposed to be erased.
>??? Could this be cause of a problem with EMM386?
>BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS 'Chocolate is a vitamin'
>On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:27:48 -0500 fernande AT internet1 DOT net writes:
>> That was me, Chad, not Mark :-)
>> The two problem areas that come to mind were SciTech Display
>>Doctor, and
>> the Wipe function of Norton Utilities. Both would cause EMM386 to
>> halt
>> the system, or crash, no matter what I tried. I can't remember
>>what exactly I tired, However, it has been too long :-)
>> Recently, after switching the boot scsi adapter in another
>>computer, Norton wipe crashes again. Let me explain further,
>>both scsi adapter
>> have been installed, I just switched the setup to boot from the
>> Differential SCSI adapter, instead of the Single Ended one. This
>>is under PCDOS 7, However. I am not worried about it, However.
>>The setup
>> is probably going to get changed again anyways :-)
>> Chad Fernandez
>> Michigan, USA
>> Recently
>> > What kind of bugs are you encountering and what software does
>>not work for
>> > you? Some software cannot use EMS installed, some cannot have
>>DPMI > installed, etc. I do not seem to have any problems with it,
>> however,
>> > programs that will work on my system okay do not work right on
>>my brother's
>> > computer. We both have DRDOS 7.03 installed. He has flaky
>>problems with some
>> > programs that I do not have problems with. I know that for one
>> thing, his
>> > BIOS sucks big time. So it may not even be a problem with the
>> EMM386 itself,
>> > but with something low level in the system.
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