Arkady V.Belousov schreef:
May you point example of drivers/configs, which may/need to load between himem and emm386?
I have UDMA2 (uses XMS) loading inbetween, for stability in VMware emulator. I might disable that, but then I'll also have to disable experimental VDS parameter.
device=himem.exe device=udma2.sys device=emm386.exe x=test vds noems dos=high,umb
For the FreeDOS bootdisk, the only thing I use config.sys for is deciding if the user wants to load XMS (and disk caches) or not.
However, when loading HIMEM, Memtest+ (www.memtest.org) crashes, as it does not like any XMS manager.
I wish we had a commandline XMS enabler (HIMEM /ENABLEXMS for example) to mimic the behaviour of XMSMMGR.EXE on a Windows installation cdrom.
DEVLOAD HIMEM.EXE causes immediate reboot of system in VMware.
Also we have MEM for displaying amounts of memory, but I don't know if there's any tool (or option in HIMEM) to indicate (by setting errorlevel) if XMS (and possibly: how much) is enabled/available.
Only way for me to check if XMS is enabled is:
IF EXIST XMSXXXX0 echo XMS manager loaded..
I don't know yet if the VDS problem between VMware/EMM386 is specific to VMware only, but I dare not test on real system (no FAT partitions, also cannot afford to screw up real system)
Bernd
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