a48@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer) (01/24/91)
The following problem came up on a 386 20 Mhz ISA PC using MSDOS 4.01 when
attempting to run AutoCad release 10. A message to the effect that there were
not enough FCBs appeared briefly and the user was dumped back to the DOS prompt
initially from within the drawing editor. We tried the following settings of
the FCBS parameter in the CONFIG.SYS file:
No FCBS parameter in config.sys - problem as described above.
FCBS=0,0 - Couldn't load AutoCad, complained about insufficient FCBS or
FILES=
FCBS=8,0 - ditto
FCBS=8,2 - ditto
FCBS=255,30 - Appears to work although the initial problem didn't manifest
itself until after about 10 minutes of editing the drawing.
We also tried increasing FILES= and BUFFERS= with no apparent effect.
What is the story with FCBS under MSDOS 4.01? I've heard others who have had
other weird things happen which seemed to implicate this parameter.draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) (01/26/91)
In article <4560@mindlink.UUCP> a48@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer) writes: >The following problem came up on a 386 20 Mhz ISA PC using MSDOS 4.01 when >attempting to run AutoCad release 10. A message to the effect that there were >not enough FCBs appeared briefly and the user was dumped back to the DOS prompt >initially from within the drawing editor. We tried the following settings of >the FCBS parameter in the CONFIG.SYS file: (settings deleted) > >What is the story with FCBS under MSDOS 4.01? I've heard others who have had >other weird things happen which seemed to implicate this parameter. FCBS are not a feature that you want to use under 4.01 because of the large partition size. The FCBS can "wrap around" at the 32MB mark and trash your disk. That's the reason that share.exe is provided. Besides handling file sharing, it also does some mumbo jumbo with FCBS so that they work properly. That may help your problem, but I wouldn't be suprised if the total solution is some combination of share.exe and the FCBS config variable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Draper In times like these it is helpful to cps.msu.edu remember that there have always draper@cps.msu.edu been times like these. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
m_patten@vivian.enet.dec.com (Martin Patten) (02/07/91)
In article <1991Jan26.012533.23107@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, draper@buster.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) writes... >In article <4560@mindlink.UUCP> a48@mindlink.UUCP (Ullrich Fischer) writes: >>The following problem came up on a 386 20 Mhz ISA PC using MSDOS 4.01 when >>attempting to run AutoCad release 10. A message to the effect that there were >>not enough FCBs appeared briefly and the user was dumped back to the DOS prompt >>initially from within the drawing editor. We tried the following settings of >>the FCBS parameter in the CONFIG.SYS file: > > (settings deleted) >> >>What is the story with FCBS under MSDOS 4.01? I've heard others who have had >>other weird things happen which seemed to implicate this parameter. > >FCBS are not a feature that you want to use under 4.01 because of the >large partition size. The FCBS can "wrap around" at the 32MB mark and >trash your disk. > >That's the reason that share.exe is provided. Besides handling file >sharing, it also does some mumbo jumbo with FCBS so that they work >properly. > >That may help your problem, but I wouldn't be suprised if the total >solution is some combination of share.exe and the FCBS config variable. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Patrick Draper In times like these it is helpful to >cps.msu.edu remember that there have always >draper@cps.msu.edu been times like these. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can you explain what FCB's are for as my system has congigured itself as 25,8 I have installed on my system the following, which i presume one of the listed packages set this for me. windows 3 wordperfect 5.1 WPS-Plus Running on a 286 with 1mb of memory thanks in advance # Martin Patten # ##### Digital Equipment Co. Ltd. ##### # England. # ##### Patten%vivian.dec@decwrl.dec.com #####