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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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