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New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result (Announce)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 17.06.2015, 21:39

Guys, I have much more serious problem with UIDE and XIDE.
It seems it can provocate an incompatibility with programs using Borland's exteders RTM.EXE and DPMI16BI.OVL

If I have 80MB cache everything is OK.
But if I set another value - (bigger: DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\XIDE.SYS /S160 /P) but suprisingly also lower (DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\XIDE.SYS /S40 /P) evil things happen.

If I run any program using RTM & DPMI16BI.OVL like BP.EXE from Borland pascal 7.0 the program immediately collapses with error message: "Ignoring (and losing) VCPI page! - beyond table." This message prints on screen about 500 times and then it ends with another message. In some cases: "JemmEx: exception 06 occured at..." and computer freezes or with exception 0E which is better because computer does not freeze.

Some notes:
1) parameter /P makes no change, other parameters I tried also don't change anything. The same issue had also UIDE.SYS

2) It occurs on my both DOS machines: P4 with 512MB RAM and P2 with 192MB RAM.
Both use JemmeX memory extender in config.sys with A20 parameter.
I was investigating this problem quite deeply few months ago and I was not able to find other possible cause in my setup than UIDE/XIDE

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• New XIDE driver (15.5.2015) from Jack - RayeR, 27.05.2015, 11:14 (Announce)
  • New XIDE driver (15.5.2015) from Jack - Rugxulo, 05.06.2015, 02:49
  • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - RayeR, 08.06.2015, 10:57
    • more rants, hopefully this ends soon! - Rugxulo, 14.06.2015, 21:55
      • ? - DOS386, 23.06.2015, 18:50
    • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 15.06.2015, 04:32
      • Jack hates everyone, even his friends - Rugxulo, 15.06.2015, 07:25
      • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 15.06.2015, 13:10
        • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Oso2k, 16.06.2015, 02:28
          • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 16.06.2015, 15:38
            • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Laaca, 17.06.2015, 21:39
              • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 18.06.2015, 00:50
                • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Laaca, 18.06.2015, 07:26
                • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Laaca, 18.06.2015, 20:57
                  • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 18.06.2015, 21:23
                  • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Laaca, 06.07.2015, 13:12
                    • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 07.07.2015, 18:02
                      • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Laaca, 07.07.2015, 21:15
                        • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - RayeR, 08.07.2015, 02:50
              • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Oso2k, 18.06.2015, 02:34
        • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Oso2k, 16.06.2015, 02:39
        • New XIDE driver (5.6.2015) from Jack - test result - Oso2k, 16.06.2015, 02:40