Re: [Freedos-user] SHSURDRV Write Protection Violation

[Japheth <ma...@ja...>]

Lester wrote:
> I'm trying to replace SRDISK with SHSURDRV (v1.11, 2005-12-21) to make a 
> ram drive "E". Fdconfig and Fdauto load ok but when using Arachne 
> browser, after exiting (to dos shell or permanently), I get the following 
> error:
> 
> "error reading from drive E: DOS area: write protection violation 
> attempted"
> 
> Readme file mentions /W switch but it's supposed to be used only with 
> shsufdrv and not shsurdrv. I didn't try it because it looks like a high 
> risk experiment (host drive corruption can occur).

/W is for SHSUFDRV only. SHSURDRV uses XMS memory to install a RAM disk, which 
is far less critical than SHSUFDRV's file access. So the RAM-Disk is writeable 
by default (it would be pretty useless to let install SHSURDRV an - empty - 
RAM-Disk and then not be able to "fill" it somehow).

I just tested SHSURDRV v1.11 (8 MB RAM-Disk) + ARACHNE v1.90 (core.exe dated 
24.06.2006) + CTMOUSE v1.91 and did not get that error.