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2. What you should know about INSIDE:

2.1. Connecting loopback plugs:

If you are not able to insert the plug easily, don't try with brutality. Check if the plug really fits into the connector or not. Ground yourself by touching a screw or a slot cover before inserting the loopback plug, so that no damage by static discharge may occur. Make sure that the port you want to test is really suitable for the loopback plug. If you are not totally sure that the port is suitable for the loopback plug, do not insert the plug. INSIDE uses loopback plugs for parallel (female DSUB25), serial (male DSUB9 or DSUB25), an game ports (female DSUB15).There are however other devices that use the same or similar connectors:

DSUB 9 DSUB 15 HD female DSUB 15 female DSUB 25 female others device
female male
- - - - 1 - external SCSI connector
- - - 1 (Network) - BNC and / or Western / RJ45 Network card; Metal clamp attached to the DSUB 15 connector
- 2 - - - - Game card for 2 digital joysticks
1 - - - - - CGA / EGA / MDA
1 - - - 1 (printer) - Hercules
possibly 1 - 1 - - - VGA, DUSB9 perhaps on older VGA cards
- - - 2 (Joystick) - - Game card
- - - 1 (Joystick / MIDI) - 3-5 mini-jack sockets, perhaps volume regulator sound card
1 - - - - DIP switches, 2 Cinch sockets Genoa SuperEGA
- - 1 1 - - Matrox MGA Millenium
- - - 1 (Joystick / MIDI) - 2 mini-jack sockets,2 Cinch sockets (gold) Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold
- - - 1 - 2 Mini-DIN sockets FAST DV Master Video card
- - - 1 - 1 Mini-DIN connector (S-VHS), 1 cinch socket, 1 antenna socket, 1 mini-jack socket Grand TV Capture
- - - - 1 2 cinch sockets very expensive sound card

2.2. If INSIDE nevertheless should crash:

If INSIDE should not start, add the switch /Debug=On on the command line and turn off all tests. If INSIDE still crashes, please let me know.

If INSIDE works with all tests disabled, start it again with the switch /Debug=On and enable the tests one after another. Turn off all the tests that cause INSIDE to crash in the INSIDE.INI file.

2.3. Precision of the results, known errors, general hints:

Page 2 - CPU and FPU:

Page 4 - BIOS Services

Page 5 - Memory

Page 6 - MCBs and Interrupts

Page 7 - Interrupt Vectors

Page 11 - Input and Output

Page 19 - Device Drivers

DR-DOS is for the most part compatible to MS-DOS 3.31, for this table, DR-DOS can be seen as MS-DOS 3.31 (except block driver bit 1). Novell DOS 7 is for the most part compatible to MS-DOS 6.x, for this table, Novell DOS 7 can be seen as MS-DOS 6.x.

Page 21 - DOS Drives

Page 22 - Current Directories

Page 23 - Drive Parameters

Page 25 - Quarterdeck

2.4. Untested detection routines:


Documentation: Copyright © 1997 by Hendrik Foken
Program: Copyright © 1997 by Alexander Foken