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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!dcl-cs!davei
- From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Help! Sytos 1.32 does not want to work!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.083933.13290@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 08:39:33 GMT
- References: <9209090253.AA10245@utep-vaxa.UUCP>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <9209090253.AA10245@utep-vaxa.UUCP> sam@utep-vaxa.UUCP (samuel pedroza) writes:
- >HELP! I am using Sytos Plus version 1.32 under DOS 5.0 with a
- >Wangteck 5150 backup tape drive off of an ADAPTEC 1542B SCSI adapter.
- >Well, more correctly, I am TRYING to use but the backup software
- >really has left me quite aggravated. When the software starts backing
- >up, it stops after about 22 files or about 293KB. Right now, it stops
- >at the same file (syplus.exe) and locks. So I figured it may be the
- >file so I excluded it from the backup. It freezes constantly after
- >about 300KB has been backed up and I have to reboot (quite slow with
- >AMI BIOS!). I have tried eliminating everything in the config.sys and
- >autoexec.bat (except for aspi4dos.sys of course) but to no avail. I
- >don't know what to try next. Can anyone please offer any
- >suggestions!!?
-
- I found out that himem.sys causes the problem and I have to boot off a
- floppy before I can use Sytos. It is a real pain.
-
- Davei
-