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STAC FAX STAC FAX
Title: Loading Stacker into High Memory.
STACKER NOTE TEC006 - 7/09/91 STAC FAX Index #2101
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Background.
To conserve base memory, it is possible to load the Stacker driver into
high memory (between 640K and 1024K) on systems with 80286 chips and
higher. Appropriate memory management software (QRAM, MOVE'EM, QEMM386,
386MAX) and hardware are needed. Loading high on an 80286 machine
requires hardware support for Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) 4.0
(see User's Manual, "Loading Stacker into High Memory").
Note: For loading high using MS-DOS 5.0's DEVICEHIGH, see STACKER NOTE
TEC015 (STAC FAX index #2102),"Loading Stacker High with
MS-DOS 5.0".
Potential problems with loading the Stacker device driver high.
1. Crowding in high memory, resulting in disk-read errors;
2. Erratic behavior of memory-intensive programs;
3. Exclude-phrases omitted from the memory manager device line (Stacker
coprocessor version only);
4. Load-high driver not invoked in STACKER.COM device driver line;
5. Stacker cache (/M=xx) specified at excessive size;
6. insufficiently large block of contiguous memory between 640K and
1024K.
Recommended Actions.
1. Consult documentation for memory manager to verify syntax in
CONFIG.SYS.
2. If applicable, edit load-high driver line to exclude range used by
coprocessor card (see User's Manual, "Re-enabling Memory Managers").
Note that the correct syntax for the AT&T 6300's AEMM.SYS is
/X=addr-addr.
3. Verify syntax of load-high statement in STACKER.COM device driver
line (see User's Manual, "Loading Stacker into High Memory").
4. Reduce size of STACKER disk cache (/M=xx switch in STACKER.COM
device driver line).
5. To verify load-high status, use a memory-mapping utility such as
Quarterdeck's MANIFEST. If Interrupts 25 and 26 are at a segment
value above A000, then Stacker is loaded high.
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Copyright 1991, Stac Electronics STAC FAX (619) 431-6712