So I have an older Gateway (PIII-450) and I am running DOS on it. My ultimate goal is to use this machine for creating disks and moving data to the older machines I want to work on.
I have it up and running with MS-DOS 6.22 and it is on my network (via TCP/IP and a 10/100 3COM 3C905-TX). It all works just great.
Here are my problems/questions.
When I run:
I notice that there is 384kb of Upper memory that is "reserved", this basically means that I only have about 19k of upper memory available, and as a result I am running out of base memory (only have about 360k free). This is making it very difficult to run anything.
I think the reserved amount is used for the bios to cache itself and I can't work out how to free this memory. If I can, then I can up my free base memory to 500+k. Any ideas? There is no options in the BIOS disabling BIOS caching.
Is there a better memory management system than himem.sys and emm386 that could allow for more upper memory?
Also, the BIOS only supports a single floppy drive but I intend to install a 1.44Mb 3.5" and a 1.2Mb 5.25 drive, so is there a PCI add on controller that you can suggest to handle this?
I have it up and running with MS-DOS 6.22 and it is on my network (via TCP/IP and a 10/100 3COM 3C905-TX). It all works just great.
Here are my problems/questions.
When I run:
Code:
mem /c/p
I think the reserved amount is used for the bios to cache itself and I can't work out how to free this memory. If I can, then I can up my free base memory to 500+k. Any ideas? There is no options in the BIOS disabling BIOS caching.
Is there a better memory management system than himem.sys and emm386 that could allow for more upper memory?
Also, the BIOS only supports a single floppy drive but I intend to install a 1.44Mb 3.5" and a 1.2Mb 5.25 drive, so is there a PCI add on controller that you can suggest to handle this?