>> About IDE... want more IDE problems? From DOS, do BASIC file.bas. If
>> file.bas do not exist, system crashes!
>> Today we find problems even doing
>> just a _RAMDISK.
>It all works fine with my setup; and I got never any complaints about
>such errors.
>Probably there is something wrong with your memorymapper??
Well, I have not IDE, I saw this in the computer of a friend (a ST) without
external mapper.
>probably your routine doesn't work correctly and corrupts the IDE
>workarea allocated in page 3.
But NestorBASIC page 3 usage is only a small area reserved with CLEAR...
>> With MegaSCSI, I never had ANY problem.
>I don't know, but perhaps MegaSCSI doesn't need any space in page3
>(?where are the DPB's located then???) and uses sram or so. In that case
>a possible bug in your 'free BASIC memory' routine is not visible. Or
>perhaps MegaSCSI workarea is not as 'sensitive' to data corruption.
Well, if NestorBASIC corrupts IDE space in page 3, it is because this space
is not protected... so it is the fault of IDE software...
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