Dos 3.3 users, Sco xenix/unix, Running wordperfect 5.x under desqview 386 – Kingston Technology MCMASTER MC133PD User Manual

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Appendix C: Troubleshooting

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MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06

Kingston Technology Company

DOS 3.3 Users

For the MCMaster to work under DOS 3.3 with the Stealth 'M' mode, you
must include the driver QEMMFIX.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file. This
driver appears in your CONFIG.SYS before QEMM386. Copy the driver into
a convenient directory on your hard drive, install QEMM, and edit your
CONFIG.SYS file to call QEMMFIX.SYS like this:

DEVICE=C:\[path]\QEMMFIX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\[path]\QEMM386.SYS [switches]

The QEMMFIX.SYS driver is supplied by Kingston, only for the MCMaster,
and only for use with DOS 3.3. In later versions of DOS, the problem that this
driver corrects does not occur.

SCO Xenix/Unix

SCO Xenix/Unix might report a "disk seek error" when the system is being shut
down. When shutdown is executed, XENIX attempts to park the heads of the
disk in a landing zone. Not all disk drives accept or require a park command;
these drives automatically park the head when power is turned off. These
drives are likely to report a seek error when SCO Xenix attempts to park the
heads. This is not a problem or failure.

Running Wordperfect 5.x under Desqview 386

The Problem

When Wordperfect is running under Desqview, the screen display becomes
extremely slow, and the system appears to hang. This problem does not occur
when the MCMaster's onboard cache is disabled.

The Cause

Wordperfect uses Interrupt 8 as part of their keyboard repeat speedup routine.
With the MCMaster installed, the system ends up spending most of its time
processing INT 8 requests.

The Solution

According to Wordperfect Corporation, this special keyboard handling can be
disabled by starting Wordperfect with the /NC command line switch, like this:

wp /nc

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