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- From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:31:25 GMT
- Subject: Re: QEMM & PCTools 7.1
- Message-ID: <4690043@pollux.svale.hp.com>
- Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!hpcc05!hpyhde4!hpycla!hpergfg2!pollux!dlow
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- References: <711701155.0@nwark.FidoNet>
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- >(Randall Weston)
- >I'm running an AMD 386-40 with 64k sram cache. If I use QEMM (or EMM386)
- >to
- > enable UMB's, CP Backup fails. It does one of three thimgs. It crashes
- >and
- > does a cold boot, compare shows different file contents, or compare says
- >it
- > can't find the backup directory. If I use only HIMEM.SYS it works just
- >fine,
- > but I don't have as much memory free as I can with QEMM. Any ideas?
-
- I have this exact configuration and use CP Backup with no problems.
- I suspect you are loading something high (smartdrv?) into an
- area that should not have been reclaimed as an UMB. Use QEMM and explicitly
- exclude areas. B000-B800 is an area that often causes problems with
- Windows.
-
- Danny Low
- "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
- Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
- HP CPCD dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
-