angelini@irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini) (10/31/90)
Hello, I have been using PC-NFS with 3C501 and WD8003E on XT and AT for a long time without any special problem. When it came to use it on 386SX, appeared one problem that I haven't been able to solve. 3C501 works fine on 386SX, but WD8003E hangs PC-NFS on the first "net" command. I think it's because of the shared memory. My 386SX has 2MO of ram,and WD8003E allows you to map shared memory from C4000 to FE0000 using the /m switch. I tried many values from D0000 to D40000,etc.... It hangs each time and I need to do a hard reset. It looks like there is a conflict between Ram and WD8003E memory in this range. Am I right ? Did anybody meet that problem and solve it? The 386SX in an AST BRAVO, with extended memory LIM 4.0, VGA screen. Config.sys looks like : device=pcnfs.sys device=wd8003E /i3 /p280 /m(Whatever you want) device=sockdrv.sys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre Antoine ANGELINI (PAA) ## E-MAIL : angelini@irisa.fr ## IFSIC /IRISA ## Atelier Micro Universite de Rennes I Campus de beaulieu 35042 RENNES CEDEX - FRANCE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
angelini@irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini) (10/31/90)
In article <1990Oct30.170706.14930@irisa.fr> angelini@irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini) writes: >Hello, >I have been using PC-NFS with 3C501 and WD8003E on XT and AT for a long >time without any special problem. >When it came to use it on 386SX, appeared one problem that I haven't been >able to solve. >3C501 works fine on 386SX, but WD8003E hangs PC-NFS on the first "net" command. >I think it's because of the shared memory. >My 386SX has 2MO of ram,and WD8003E allows you to map shared memory from >C4000 to FE0000 using the /m switch. >I tried many values from D0000 to D40000,etc.... It hangs each time and I need >to do a hard reset. >It looks like there is a conflict between Ram and WD8003E memory in this range. > >Am I right ? >Did anybody meet that problem and solve it? > >The 386SX in an AST BRAVO, with extended memory LIM 4.0, VGA screen. >Config.sys looks like : > >device=pcnfs.sys >device=wd8003E /i3 /p280 /m(Whatever you want) >device=sockdrv.sys > > Thanks to Alex Kreis who told me to disable "shadow memory" ,for he had that problem with two of his SX, but It wasn't that kind of problem for me. I found this morning why. My VGA board is a 16-bit board and was forcing all memory above A0000 to 16-bit mode. Setting the board to 8-bit mode solved my problem. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre Antoine ANGELINI (PAA) ## E-MAIL : angelini@irisa.fr ## IFSIC /IRISA ## Atelier Micro Universite de Rennes I Campus de beaulieu 35042 RENNES CEDEX - FRANCE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------