keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (03/27/89)
In article alanr@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Alan Rovner) writes: > >I've been using 386 to the Max and 386load for a couple months now and >would recommend them to any 386 users. So far I have my mouse driver, >Ramdisk driver, disk cache programsand other goodies out of base memory >giving me almost 600K of free base memory. Everything seems to work fine >and I enjoy the extra space. I have a SCSI drive and have had less than magnificent luck getting 386^MAX to cooperate with either a WD7000ASC SCSI controller card or with an Adaptec AHA-1540 SCSI controller card. If I boot up from a floppy that contains the config.sys (and the drivers it loads) and an autoexec.bat that subsequently transfers to the hard disk, I can get 386^MAX to work, mostly. Occasionally my machine (an Intel 301-based 386AT) will simply stop, requiring either a soft or hard reboot. There are some other complicating factors, including the desire to have PCTools desktop loaded resident. All in all I'd like to have a SCSI drive work with 386^MAX because I want to load the PC-NFS drivers and PCTools desktop into high DOS memory (640k-1M range) and run the MKS Toolkit init/login system. In a word: hah! The most troublesome of which is the MKS Toolkit initialization scheme, which I'll have to abandon if I keep up with all this. And because the PCTools Desktop "loads big" and then releases (sort of) the memory it wanted both 386^MAX and MKS Toolkit break when they try to load it resident. And just for grins, I really want to fold VM/386 into all this; I' _like_ to run the networking in one virtual machine, MKS in another, and maybe PCTools stuff in another. But VM/386 uses a special driver to share the hard disk among the virtual machines which doesn't cooperate with PC-NFS's remote file system. Aaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!! Any of the special add-ins work if they're used singularly; two or more are problematic; three require some real work; and four means you're porbably going to have to give up something to get them all to work together, if they work at all. kEITHe
marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) (03/29/89)
What about using 386load &&/|| 386^max with smartdrv and himem.sys? What happens if your computer swaps the bios out to ram? (on mine I can turn this feature off...) marco marco@hmpcaa
keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson) (04/11/89)
In article <128056@neabbs.UUCP> datagoer@neabbs.UUCP (HAN CUPERUS) writes:
<I will think you should buy the program "386 MAX" from th company
<Qualitas Inc. , P.O.Box 386 , Cabin John , MD 20818 , fax: (301)
<496-5810 for the price of $129.95 total.
<This program is placing ALL resident programs into the 1MB expanded
<memory , included the DOS or other operating system drivers , so you
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<can endly use your expanded memory properly.
Be sure to order the "professional" version (I think it is) or
you'll have to order 386LOAD as a separate item to load config.sys-
installed drivers.
kEITHe