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- From: lierz@gmd.de (Wolfgang Lierz)
- Subject: Re: How do I access the upper memory area of a Toshiba Laptop?
- Message-ID: <lierz.712569818@gmd.de>
- Keywords: Toshiba Laptop Memory
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- Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- References: <1992Jul30.063747.11546@cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:03:38 GMT
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- In <1992Jul30.063747.11546@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> tony@ctpm.uq.oz.au (Tony Jago) writes:
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- >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.
- ...
- >I appear to be unable to access HMA with emm386.sys.
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- Of Course, because emm386.sys comes from DOS 4.0 !!!
- You must use Toshiba's emm386.exe which came with Your Toshiba DOS 5.0
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- >The two parameters of emm386 which give access to HMA - noems and ram
- >are both rejected by the machine.
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- No, they were not supported under DOS 4.0.
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- >Dos loads high, but I cannot see or access HMA to load other device drivers.
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- It loads high because HIMEM is sufficient for that.
- You cant use the HMA because DOS uses it.
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- Best regards,
- Wolfgang Lierz / GMD
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