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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: How do I access the upper memory area of a Toshiba Laptop?
- Keywords: Toshiba Laptop Memory
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.004358.19595@panix.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:43:58 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.063747.11546@cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Jul30.063747.11546@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> tony@ctpm.uq.oz.au (Tony Jago) writes:
- >I have a problem with a Toshiba T5200 with 5M of extended memory.
- >Currently configured with TEST3 as all extended memory except 288K for
- >shadow ROM as recommended in the Toshiba manual.
- >The version of DOS is 5.0.
- >The network is PCNFS 4.0
- >It contains a Western Digital Ethernet Card
- > TP Ethernet 8013WC
- > I/O Address 240
- > IRQ 5
- > RAM size 16K
- > RAM Address C800
- > ROM size disabled
- > ROM Address D800
- > Connection 10BaseT
- >
- >I appear to be unable to access HMA with emm386.sys.
- >An extract from the config.sys file is...
- > ...
- > device=himem.sys /m:1
- > device=emm386.sys noems
- > dos=high,umb
- > ...
- >
- >The two parameters of emm386 which give access to HMA - noems and ram
- >are both rejected by the machine.
- >Dos loads high, but I cannot see or access HMA to load other device drivers.
- >Does anyone have any ideas?
-
- Are you using =TOSHIBA= DOS 5.0?
- All the memory drivers are tweaked by Toshiba for their hardware.
-
- Have you tried excluding the ROM locations in your EMM command line?
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