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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Fastback DMA failure (8237A-5) defective chip
Summary: Fastback != Fastback+
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Date: 21 Nov 89 03:26:52 GMT
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# If there really is a hardware problem, why does one version of Fastback
# work and the other won't.  Smells fishy to me.  Anyone have any ideas?????
Simple,
Fastback+ bears little or no relation to Fastback-un+.
They were written by different authors, at different times.
The author of +, aware of the DMA problem, went to great
lengths to avoid it if possible, and if not, detect it during
installation. 
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