Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) (09/03/90)
Greetings! I'm having problems setting up a permenant swap file. When I try to run swapfile while in real mode from within Windows, it tells me there is an incompatible driver in my config.sys file. I've tried disabling all the devices in the config.sys file. Here is what I have: files = 30 buffers = 10 device =C:\dos\himem.sys shell =C:\command.com C:\ /e:320 /p device =C:\dos\dmdrvr.bin device =C:\dos\ansi.sys device =C:\dos\fastbios.sys device =C:\util\vga\rambios.sys device =C:\dos\smartdrv.sys 2048 512 device =C:\mouse1\mouse.sys And here is my autoexec.bat file: prompt $p$g PATH =C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINWORD;C:\DOS;C:\UTIL;C:\UTIL\BATCH;C:\UTIL\EC; C:\UTIL\NORTON;C:\QDOS;D:\;D:\TOOLBOOK;D:\ARCHIVE sa bright white on blue c:\UTIL\TSR\mapmem set TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP win Any suggestions? Neptune@cup.portal.com Dwayne Farley
ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff) (09/04/90)
In article <33470@cup.portal.com> Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes: >Greetings! > >I'm having problems setting up a permenant swap file. >When I try to run swapfile while in real mode from within Windows, >it tells me there is an incompatible driver in my config.sys file. >I've tried disabling all the devices in the config.sys file. >Here is what I have: > > ... deleted ... > > >Any suggestions? > >Neptune@cup.portal.com >Dwayne Farley The culprit I have discovered is dmdrvr.bin. In order to use a permanent swapfile, I had to resort to an upgrade of DOS to ver 4.01 which partitions the disk itself without the need to use the dmdrvr.bin driver. Nick Solntseff.....
poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) (09/05/90)
In article <33470@cup.portal.com> Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes: >Greetings! > >I'm having problems setting up a permenant swap file. >When I try to run swapfile while in real mode from within Windows, >it tells me there is an incompatible driver in my config.sys file. >I've tried disabling all the devices in the config.sys file. >Here is what I have: > >files = 30 >buffers = 10 >device =C:\dos\himem.sys >shell =C:\command.com C:\ /e:320 /p >device =C:\dos\dmdrvr.bin >device =C:\dos\ansi.sys >device =C:\dos\fastbios.sys >device =C:\util\vga\rambios.sys >device =C:\dos\smartdrv.sys 2048 512 >device =C:\mouse1\mouse.sys > >And here is my autoexec.bat file: > >prompt $p$g >PATH =C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINWORD;C:\DOS;C:\UTIL;C:\UTIL\BATCH;C:\UTIL\EC; >C:\UTIL\NORTON;C:\QDOS;D:\;D:\TOOLBOOK;D:\ARCHIVE >sa bright white on blue >c:\UTIL\TSR\mapmem >set TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP >win > > >Any suggestions? > I think your problem is "dmdrvr.bin". This is a third party disk management utility to allow using disks > 1024 cylinders and/or > 32 Mb partitions. Windows 3.0 has difficulty with these, particularly with permanent swap files. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254