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- From: weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Christoph Weber-Fahr [KIT])
- Subject: Re: Net drivers memory consumption
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.071247.5689@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Keywords: EMS highmem
- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- References: <79276@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Sep7.223708.9015@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 07:12:47 GMT
- Lines: 65
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- dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman) writes:
-
- >In article <79276@ut-emx.uucp> johnk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu () writes:
- >>
- >>I have a need to load the netware drivers (token/ipx/netx or odi*)
- >>into high memory or some such to free up conventional memory for a
- >>program. (I need ~600K) It can be done, as I know that others have
- >>been able to do it. My problem, however, is that when I load the
- >>software into high memory, it doesn't work. Actually, just having the
- >>EMS driver loaded is enough to cause the netware drivers to be unable
- >>to function.
- >>
- >>Is this just a problem with token-ring drivers? Those drivers seem to
- >>be the ones causing me problems (dxm?0*.sys or token.com; usually
- >>something like "board won't initialize" or some such).
- >>
- >I have similar problems in that I can't run EMM386.exe as it clashes
- >with the token ring card. I have tried excluding the range b000-bfff
- >which I thought was the range used by the TR card but this didn't
- >seem to work.
-
- >I have not been able to find a definative reference for the above problems
- >any suggestions?
-
- Yes. I run them nearly without problems. The problems you have are
- probably memory conflicts.
- If you have the Micro-Channel Token Ring cards, simply start your
- reference disk. They are fully configurable.
- If they are ISA cards, then it is more difficult.
-
- Usually an IBM Token-Ring card needs two blocks of memory:
- 16 k shared RAM and 8 k ROM (You can configure the RAM size, but Novell
- recommends the 16k).
- The ROM address defaults to segment CC00. It can be configured by
- dip-switches.
- The RAM - Address defaults to C800. It is software-configurable - BUT
- Novell's TOKEN.COM does not support this configuration. If you depend on this
- opportunity, you can use the IBM Lan Support Program. These drivers
- have options for the shared RAM address - see the documentation.
-
- Then you need proper emmexclude-statements (for windows) resp
- x= statements in the emm386 line of the config.sys.
- For a standard setup this would look:
-
- (config.sys)
- device=emm386.sys <other options> x=C800-CDFF
-
- (system.ini)
- [386Enh]
- EMMEXCLUDE=C800-CDFF
-
- If you have done this, you can load several drivers high. With the
- token-ring drivers my problems stopped, when I didn't load the LSL high.
- Others people here have recommended other kinds of setup, though.
-
- Regards
-
- Christoph Weber-Fahr
-
-
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- Universitaet Kaiserslautern, KIT | S-Mail: Postfach 3049
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