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From: 9700036Wackers <9700036Wackers AT hi DOT t DOT hsl DOT nl>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Problem with floppydrive after running RHIDE under MSDOS 6.2
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:51:46 +0100
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Hello, 

first of all I want to say that I'm very sattisfied with the DJGPP-compiler.

But now I'm afraid I've done something wrong, but I don't know what. 

I've downloaded DJGPP comletely (with all extentions). I wanted to put 
some add-ons to my perfectly running DJGPP (basic C/C++/ASM 
with RHIDE). It turned out to be a mistake. 

After unipping all files to my DJGPP directory (overwriting only older 
files) an setting everything, everything seemed fine. But after I had 
started RHIDE (enter and immediately exit) my floppy drive was 
unaccessable. When "dir a:\." I saw a part of my harddisk. Deleting 
the entire DJGPP directory and re-installing it didn't help either.
"Sector 0 not found." or "Sector not found." was the result. The 
floppydrive led didn't light up when trying to access it. Obviously a 
result from starting RHIDE as the drive works OK before starting 
RHIDE and after rebooting. In the dosshell of RHIDE the floppydrive 
already isn't accessible.

Now I've re-downloaded all files twice (once the minimal installation
and once I might want to have). I watched especially that I selected
"MSDOS, Opendos, ..". Installing this version didn't help either.

I've tried RHIDE and it works just fine, just after opening I can't 
open an other project ("There was an error." or someting like that).
But everything that need (just compile, link, and easily open&edit 
files) works just fine. Running a created executable works also.

Can you give me help or an indication what the problem is?
Should I use Emm386.exe, Himem.sys to solve the problem or 
just one .. none? I've tried some combinations but never without 
himem.sys. 
Should I remove the line DOS=HIGH, UMB from config.sys?
I expect the problem to be there.


Thanks in advance, 

                               Christian Wackers

E-mail: 9700036wackers AT hi DOT t DOT hsl DOT nl