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From: "Michal H. Tyc" <mht AT bttr-software DOT de>
Organization: BTTR Software
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:06:25 +0100
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Subject: Re: PNW (restarting server?)
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:28:39 +1100, da Silva, Joe wrote:

> One question however. While I can use the command
> 'net down' to stop the server, I can't find any way to
> start it up again without rebooting. The documentation
> doesn't seem to mention anything about this. Does
> anyone know if it's possible to restart the server
> without the hassle of rebooting?

I don't know about such a possibility, unfortunately.
It would be very useful -- now you have to reboot to
re-enable the server not only after 'net down', but also
after 'chkdsk /f', 'diskopt', etc.

> BTW, one interesting problem I encountered on the
> DR-DOS 7.02+ (using the 7.03 kernel and EMM386;-)
> PC, a Cyrix 6x86L which had previously run DR-DOS
> 6.0 quite nicely ... Now if I load EMM386 by itself in
> 'config.sys', it is quite unstable and locks-up within
> a minute or so. If I load HIMEM (again, from 7.03;-)
> before EMM386, everything's fine. (Of course, I tried
> the usual thing of excluding all the UMB area, but it
> made no difference.)

I wonder whether this is a CPU problem or a mainboard
problem -- the definitive answer would be to temporarily
replace the Cyrix chip with Intel one. (I have to say
that I never experience such problems with Cyrix 5x86.)

Regards,

Michal