From: "Mills, Dean" <dmills AT img DOT net>
To: "mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Cc: "OpenDOS Mailing List" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 97 21:41:04 
Reply-To: "Dean Mills" <dmills AT img DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Controller card or Norton's SpeedDisk eat files w/ OpenDOS?
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:03:19 -0500 (EST), mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
wrote:

>Sounds like you are jumping to conclusions.  Use the scientific
>method.

No, not conclusions, if I would have had a choice, I would not have changed
the controller card (hardware failure). I am not about to introduce OpenDOS
onto the only other machine at my disposal, which is the server here, so, I
am left with this older 486, with a new caching controller.

>Only change one variable at a time.  That way you can cast blame on the proper thing.  Unless you try it out like that, it will
>be difficult to tell exactly what caused the problem.  It could be either one, or the combination of all that has caused the problem.

I know, that's why I asked, and what I said already!

>I suggest reinstalling your stuff to disk, then trying the machine out
>without opendos.  If it works ok, try out opendos.  If it fries the
>machine, then reinstall and take out the Promise card.  Run Opendos
>with the old card.  Continue this until you find out what is causing
>the problem.

I can't run the old card, and it's Norton's Speed Disk, not OpenDOS directly,
that is causing the problems.
To the other's on this thread, I am not multitasking, TaskManager is not
loaded, nor is EMM386 (it blows up and reboots my machine if I try and load
it, although it will load in conjuction with HIMEM.SYS, but not alone).

D.Mills