ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies) (03/19/90)
I am having a real problem with the ATI drivers for the VGA Wonder.
I want to use AutoCAD with 1024x768, and use AutoShade with 640x480x256.
What happens is that when I exit CAD to go to Shade, the batch file I
have made will not load in the shade driver because it thinks that the
driver for CAD is the one I want and says "already loaded". I then
have to use shade in 1024x768x16 and it sucks.
I've tried changing the interrupts for the drivers and that doesn't work.
I do not know how to unload the driver from memory so I can get the other
one in. The manual does not say how to do this.
As things stand now, I have to reboot, get the driver out of there, and
THEN call the batch file. Am I stuck with this kludgy workaround?
Also, I have a Seagate ST296N 80 meg SCSI drive. The controller for it is
a Western Digital something-or-other with "an 8-bit channel" according
to my dealer. Now the COREtest (1986 version, is there a more recent one?)
says about 30 ms. access and aprox 2600 Kb/sec transfer rate. Now my dealer
says that even though it is about 28-30 ms. access, the high speed transfer
makes the access effectively 17-20 ms. I find this hard to believe since,
the ms. involved in a physical movement are literally thousands of times
slower than shuffling data along an electronic channel.
So am I being fed a line of bullshit, here or what? Does anyone know what
SCSI controllers Western Digital makes and if they are any good? It seems
like I got a low-end WD controller. If anyone has more information on the
WD controllers available, I'd like to hear from you.
I was told that there are about 10 controllers available that would work
for this drive. Is the Adaptec the best one?
Thanks for your time.
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!being!mind!self!cogsci!AI!think!nerve!parallel!cybernetix!chaos!fractal!info!KDA101@psuvm.psu.edu (KeithPetto Alexander) (03/19/90)
In article <1512@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies) says: > >I am having a real problem with the ATI drivers for the VGA Wonder. >I want to use AutoCAD with 1024x768, and use AutoShade with 640x480x256. >What happens is that when I exit CAD to go to Shade, the batch file I >have made will not load in the shade driver because it thinks that the >driver for CAD is the one I want and says "already loaded". I then >have to use shade in 1024x768x16 and it sucks. > >As things stand now, I have to reboot, get the driver out of there, and >THEN call the batch file. Am I stuck with this kludgy workaround? No, there is at least one possible way around this. There are several programs (shareware) that let you remove TSRs from memory. Generally, you place a marker in memory then load your driver, run AutoCAD, then release the memory back to the marker. You do all this from your AutoCAD batch file so the driver will only be in memory while you are actually using AutoCAD. Look for Take Command on a local bulletin board, there are others, but that's the one I remember at the moment. There are probably other ways to do this, but this should work. Petto :-> "You weren't like that before the beard." -- Q Petto is still an AI program run amuck, his opinions are the result of a deranged program from a less deranged programmer. kda101@psuvm.bitnet