Hi folks
Here is my story on transporting my DOS stuff to my son's new
Athlon computer.
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Hi Folks ([art 2)
I then transferred the whole 4.3 GB from old P166 to D: partition of new
HD and basically adjusted the old config.sys and autoexec.bat to some new
drivers.
I later found out that I was lucky about how easy I could transfer
from one HD to the other at first try. It so happened that I used
the ATA 66/100 flat cable that comes with motherboard. I thought it was a
normal cable, but for some reason I put both jumpers at CS (cable select)
so not to worry. The transfer worked OK so I forgot the issue until I
was glancing at some notes from Quantum which explained what I have done.
The ATA 66/100 cable is not a normal cable. It has a blue connector
for the motherboard, a black connector for the master HD and a grey
connector for the slave HD. With this cable, CS (cable select ) is the
proper setting for both drives. If I would have placed the master on DS
(drive select) and the slave with no jumpers as usual, it wouldn't have
worked, and I would have lost some time.
The drive being FAT32 i dumped DOS 6.22 altogether in favor of
DOS 7.10.2222 that comes embedded in win98.
All offline programs I normally use including Arachne for offline htm
viewing and pegasus mail worked fine.
It was time for looking at commports and modems.
I use a setpnp.exe /C:4 /I:3 in autoexec.bat to set the modem port
to COM4 0x2E8 and IRQ=3 and use conex.exe as simple comm program for
testing. It did not work, I tryed several options and nothing.
So I started looking at conflicts, but I have so few devices in DOS
that this is unlikely.
The next day with a cooler head I started looking at initial screens
to see the information offered at start up.
I saw a line indicating approx . ISA Modem Irq 9.
After searching for info in the motherboard manual and BIOS screens
I found out that this BIOS has a mini OS for setting PnP hardware for
non Windows users. But still if I do a 2nd setting (setpnp) after the
BIOS setting, then the 2nd setting should prevail.
But didn;t work this way so I decided to see if BIOS setting would do it
So I excluded setpnp. I knew BIOS used irq=9 so I tested several adresses
in conex and 2E8 (COM4) did the trick.
After that I edited conex.ini, several pppdrc.cfg's and several command
lines for lsppp with the new irq 9 .the port address didn't changed.
And almost all DOS internet applications started working without
modification an the Athlon 900 CPU.
Arachne 1.66, pdpmpop.exe (mail transport for pegasus) , wattcp's ftp,
wattcp's tcpport + conex = telnet, lynx 2.8.3, CUTC Telnet
packet drivers lsppp and pppd also worked fine.
Only one program stopped working, trumpet news which gave me runtime error
To date the onboard Soundblaster Pro compatible legacy sound while
properly ? configured works but doesn't sound, which means all applications
detect a virtual sound board , seem to work fine but no sound comes out of
speakers. Seems like volume set to 0.
By the way the page www.diarioelpais.com on A1.66 freezes after loading
20 to 23K on 3 computers: 486 DX2 66, P166 and Athlon900. Hope this
goes away when I get A1.7X .
That's all folks
regards
Luis A. Loeff
