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UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK (Users)

posted by sol, 12.11.2007, 03:16

> Crash?
> If I remember well, when XMS driver not present it ask if load XMS driver
> and then continue. But I admit it may crash for somebody as many other DOS
> sw/drivers :)

Yeah, it doesn't happen under all circumstances, and XMSDSK itself doesn't crash, it causes some sort of instability. When it would happen to me, COMMAND.COM would give a "memory allocation error" and then crash, whereas simply commenting out XMSDSK with the same configuration doesn't crash.

Complete thread:

• UIDE and Soundblaster emulation - Laaca, 11.11.2007, 23:28 (Users)
  • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation - Jack R. Ellis, 12.11.2007, 00:12
  • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK - Rugxulo, 12.11.2007, 01:39
    • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK - RayeR, 12.11.2007, 02:46
      • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK - sol, 12.11.2007, 02:58
        • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK - RayeR, 12.11.2007, 03:07
          • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK - sol, 12.11.2007, 03:16
            • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation -- TDSK - RayeR, 12.11.2007, 03:18
              • Another RAM disk - Steve, 12.11.2007, 03:30
  • UIDE and Soundblaster emulation - flo, 12.11.2007, 11:26