At 04:05 AM 7/30/2005 +0000, Mark wrote:
Hi Michael:
Well, the E000 message is repeatable on this box...
Found that problem. A matter of the EMS routines not properly reporting
failure to locate a suitable page frame. Instead they fell through and
reported the default page frame. I suppose that would have caused program
failure if you didn't specify NOEMS option, didn't have enough room for the
EMS page frame, AND the program actually tried using EMS. Anyway, it's
fixed now, with better feedback on failure to locate a page frame when
NOEMS and FRAME=NONE options are not specified.
If you want to try this test version of EMM386, Go to
ftp.devoresoftware.com\downloads\emm386 and download emmcow.zip. It should
fix your page frame feedback problem. Very much doubt it affects your VDS
situation, but you can give it a shot.
Interesting thing, though. I could only get the message here if I first
booted into Win XP, then rebooted into my FreeDOS flash stick through
Windows restart. Apparently, the X=TEST option found garbage bytes at
segments E000 - EF00 in those circumstances, so it excluded that entire
range. Wouldn't happen on subsequent reboots direct with the FreeDOS flash
stick OR powering down and up into the flash stick. Only rebooting from
within XP.
And that's a good reason why X=TEST probably shouldn't be a default
option. Under reproducible conditions on my computer, it can exclude an
entire 64K range of upper memory that is available. There is no way to
automatically detect that the range shouldn't be excluded, because the
bytes are nonrepeated and look like they actually have a purpose.
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