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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!monymsys!sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM!bruce
- From: bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: Expansion box info needed
- References: <1992Dec29.130554.3446@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1992Dec29.202555.8913@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
- <72605@cup.portal.com> <626@cpsolv.CPS.COM> <18@zebra.alphacdc.COM>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:32:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.183259.15251@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
- Lines: 39
-
- In article <72605@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) wrote:
- >In article <1992Dec29.202555.8913@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM>
- >bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- >| Ethernet doesn't work (actually, it will send packets, but not
- >| receive any).
- >
- >'Sfunny, Ethernet AND StarLAN work fine in ALL FIVE of my expansion chassis,
- >as do VoicePower, DOS-73, tape backup, etc.
-
- Could be different versions of the Ethernet card, expansion box,
- and/or 3B1 mother board. If I recall corectly, the Ethernet
- board uses two different interrupt levels; it appears that in
- the 2 systems that I tested, one of the interrupts wasn't
- working via the expansion box. No problems with the Ethernet
- cards plugged directly into one of the three slots in the 3B1
- base.
-
- >The ONLY cards that don't work in the expansion chassis are:
- >
- > RAM expansion
- > EIA/RAM combo (with OR without RAM)
-
- And, of course, another expansion chassis card.
-
- In article <626@cpsolv.CPS.COM>, rhg@cpsolv.CPS.COM (Richard H. Gumpertz) wrote:
- > A combo card WITHOUT memory installed should work OK in the expansion box;
-
- In article <18@zebra.alphacdc.COM>, vern@zebra.alphacdc.COM (Vernon C. Hoxie) wrote:
- > The serial ports on the Combo Cards may work but the memory
- > portion won't.
-
- Thad's right; EIA/RAM combo boards do *not* function in the
- expansion chassis, with or without RAM installed.
-
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