Hi everybody
> I have Windows 3.11(not WFW) and can't find an > option to turn off 32-bit disk acass in BIOS. Not in BIOS, just the Windows 386+ driver for it. On empowermentzone.com, I must have once found the win31faq.txt - you can probably find it on other websites as well: "Microsoft Windows Frequently Asked Questions Prepared 03/07/95" (from the Microsoft knowledge base) I can also recommend a thread from the DOSEMU mailing list in Nov 2004 about win386 compatibility, titled "Windows 386 in DOSEMU - explanation attempt" Finally, here are my (often very technical!) collected 2004 notes about Windows compatibility issues. Maybe some developers will enjoy them Various issues probably did already get fixed in FreeDOS long ago. For you as USER, Jamie, please just scroll to the section with the "/D:.." options. Those are what you need if you want to disable 32 bit disk or file access, virtual IRQ or special handling of UMB and BIOS area. Good luck Regards, Eric For freedos-user, I just copy the part for Jamie. The long version will be sent to freedos-devel next... Minimal driver list: http://www.logicalsky.com/Windows31_FAQ.htm Q&A: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q85/1/94.asp http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;127139 -> win.ini [Windows] SafeMode=1 or even SafeMode=2 to disable VGA accel? http://www.tnweb.com/support/gpf.php -> no ramdisks, only MS emm386 if any, try allocating more breakpoints: [386Enh] MaxBPS=768 ... Plain Windows loading already places 150 of default 200 breakpoints! clean system.ini for Win3.0 is [boot] only progman/system/keyboard/ mouse/vga/comm/mmsound, and clean win.ini is [windows] only empty load= and run= ... stacks=9,256 is only for 3.1, 3.0 works without... Looks like MS also offers a vshare.386 which works better than SHARE, use SHARE only if really needed (-> e.g. for Word?)... http://www.infokomp.no/techinfo/doc/Wintips.htm Win3.x: /D:X -> EMMExclude=A000-EFFF /D:S -> SystemRomBreakpoint=OFF /D:F -> 32BitDiskAccess=OFF /D:V -> VirtualHDIrq=OFF /D:C -> no 32 bit FILE access (WfW 3.11 only) /D:T no VxDs (3.11) /B log boot progress to text file Win3.x stabilizing hints: http://www.google.com/search? q=cache:KRyROWjjId0J:www.eeng.brad.ac.uk/help/.dos/.winstab.html WIN /D:SFVX or WIN /D:TFC /N (for 3.1 / WfW3.11 respectively) (but /D:T is only for testing, will mean no DOS boxes / VMs avail) It is also recommended to disable all A20 / shadow ROM stuff, because that could remap memory in some way which might confuse Win/DMA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
