333 Pent II disable cache?

[mogman]

You folks have helped me before and I need help again, the older laptops are getting harder to maintain and find parts for and I have several Gateway Solo Pent II 333 MHz units, they run all of the RSS I need but for the Max99.
99% of the time I try to invoke the ICD command it locks up the machine, but that 1 in 100 it takes it and the RSS runs fine with no issues, only sooner or later I have to shut down the machine and it starts all over again.
I have tried disabling smart drive and highmem without success, there must be a way to reliably disable the L2 cache or some other way to make this work but I have not been able to find it.
THANKS!
Craig

[Jim202]

You folks have helped me before and I need help again, the older laptops are getting harder to maintain and find parts for and I have several Gateway Solo Pent II 333 MHz units, they run all of the RSS I need but for the Max99.
99% of the time I try to invoke the ICD command it locks up the machine, but that 1 in 100 it takes it and the RSS runs fine with no issues, only sooner or later I have to shut down the machine and it starts all over again.
I have tried disabling smart drive and highmem without success, there must be a way to reliably disable the L2 cache or some other way to make this work but I have not been able to find it.
THANKS!
Craig

I have been using a small program called "cacheoff.com" that I downloaded off the Internet after a search for it. Run it before you start the radio programming software. I put a copy of this program in each of the radio programming directories, so I don't have to keep changing directories when programming radios.

Jim

[mogman]

Thanks Jim that is the ICD I was talking about, it locks this machine up 99% of the time, it says disabling cache and that's the end of it, I never get a prompt back

[mogman]

To be clear the program I am running is cache off, it has a ICD (disable) and ICE (enable) command, I can find nothing when searching for cacheoff.com

[DJP126]

Okay, here come the dumb questions.

1 - Are you running in "pure DOS" or a Windows shell? (It seems MSDOS 6.22 works best with some of the older RSS software)

2 - What version of DOS?

3 - Have you tried the SMARTDRV - command?

Even though some RSS works through a Windows DOS, not all of them do.