[LMH]DPMT state at startup?

[Nyef]

Hello all.

SSDN2, section 6.4 says:

% When the system is first booted,  the  DPMT  indicates  that  all
% virtual  pages  reside in the read-only load band associated with
% Device B.

Does anyone know if this is arranged by the band-save code, or does the
microcode fix up the DPMT on startup? If the latter, what sort of fixup is
it?

I ask because, in exploiter, both N928.LOAD and EXP1.LOAD are presently
running into a page that is set to device A (the swap device) with a
status code of 3 (disk block not yet assigned) during a read operation.

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Alastair Bridgewater
e-mail: nyef@softhome.net