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- From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Disappearing UMB's, get this.
- Message-ID: <4857@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 19:56:09 PST
- References: <1993Jan01.181352.6500@donau.et.tudelft.nl> <1993Jan4.173117.14082@dcatlas.dot.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan4.173117.14082@dcatlas.dot.gov>, joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
- > linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- > >The funniest thing happened to me. Yesterday, when I booted my
- > >dos partition, I noticed I had no UMB's. I was rather surprised,
- > >since I hadn't changed anything since I last used dos.
- > >And behold, the himem.sys and emm386.exe settings were still
- > >ok, yet, from the dos prompt (4dos or command.com) I could not
- > >see any UMB's, emm386 repports 0 bytes available/free UMB
- > >but a correct UMB start segment (C800), SI repports no UMB server
- > >present, BUT the drivers in DEVICEHIGH's were loaded high and
- > >functioning!!!
- >
- > Are you sure they were up high?
- > Sounds like some of your BIOS settings may have been changed, such as the ones
- > for shadow RAM. How much RAM is in your system?
-
-
- Actually I've had UMB's disappear from MEM command's output,
- however they were still there (of course). I haven't yet
- been able to find the source of the problem, but it looks
- very much like a bug in DOS 5.
-
- I may not know exactly where the bug is coming from, but it's
- not in configuration or anything like that. My bet is that
- DOS overwrites it's pointer to the first UMB. When it looses
- that, the whole thing is gone as far as DOS knows. Naturally
- the blocks remain there set up correctly and device drivers
- still work correctly with pointers being bueno all around.
-
- I suggest someone at Microsoft run DOS apps with debugging
- set to the memory location of the UMB pointer...
-
- Aki.
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