magid@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) (03/04/91)
I have seen various people complain about floppy problems but I have not seen anyone mention the one that I am experiencing. Dos prog can only access the drive when they are in full screen mode. When they are in a window the program will try to access the disk, but after quite a while it gets timed out. This problem only occurs with dos progs, windows progs do not have a problem. There are several possible causes: 1: I am using the LastByte dos extender that loads all tsrs and drivers into high memory. 2: I may have a lousy floppy drive card 3: I may have a lousy BIOS, it is AMI bios for the sx, date 04/30/89 4: I am using fdread which extends the length of my 1.2 meg disks to 1.4 megs. I do not think it is number 1 because I have didled with the switch in the system.ini file that prevents the floppy drive from using high mem to no avail. I am highly suspicious of my bios and I have a sneaky feeling that that is what is causing all my hassles. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Paul PS: Here is another wierd one. I have a program group that works fine in enhanced mode, but if I ever have to enter real mode (rarely) I get an error message to the effect that it cannot open the group and it presents the name as a couple of wierd characters; and when I do get control of the program manager the group is nowhere to be found.
magid@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) (03/05/91)
In article <1991Mar3.234521.28428@agate.berkeley.edu> magid@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid) writes: > I have seen various people complain about floppy problems but I have not >seen anyone mention the one that I am experiencing. Dos prog can only access >the drive when they are in full screen mode. When they are in a window the >program will try to access the disk, but after quite a while it gets timed out. >This problem only occurs with dos progs, windows progs do not have a problem. > >There are several possible causes: > 1: I am using the LastByte dos extender that loads all tsrs and > drivers into high memory. > 2: I may have a lousy floppy drive card > 3: I may have a lousy BIOS, it is AMI bios for the sx, date 04/30/89 > 4: I am using fdread which extends the length of my 1.2 meg disks > to 1.4 megs. > >I do not think it is number 1 because I have didled with the switch in the >system.ini file that prevents the floppy drive from using high mem to no avail. >I am highly suspicious of my bios and I have a sneaky feeling that that is what >is causing all my hassles. > >Any help will be appreciated. > > >Thanks in advance. > >Paul > >PS: Here is another wierd one. I have a program group that works fine in > enhanced mode, but if I ever have to enter real mode (rarely) I get > an error message to the effect that it cannot open the group and it > presents the name as a couple of wierd characters; and when I do > get control of the program manager the group is nowhere to be found. Does absolutely no one have any advice on either of my problems? Paul