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From: brad@microm.UUCP (Bradley W. Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Novell 386 and interleaved memory
Keywords: Novell memory bios
Message-ID: <261@microm.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 90 20:03:54 GMT
Organization: Micro Maintenance, INC., Tempe, AZ
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We are about to put together several 386 33 mhz clones with Novell 386
version 3.0, and some scsi drives. Today while looking at the C&T based 
motherboards (AMI bios, version 1.1 1990), I noticed that the memory
interleave could not be disabled. When you run the setup you can tell it
to disable, but upon bootup, it is still enabled. I have seen some 25 mhz
motherboards (SY-012 for instance) with the same bios that had this
"automatically enabled" memory interleave ... and they would not run with
another 32 bit specific operating system, Interactive UNIX, although 286 
Novell would run Ok.

Now maybe I'm just being a little "gun shy" here, but I cannot get my vendor
to commit to these boards being able to run 386 Novell Ok.

So I'm hoping that the interleaving is not going to be an issue, but ...
I would appreciate hearing from others that have succesfully installed
386 Novell on C&T based clones with the AMI bios *and* memory interleave
enabled.

Of course I'll post a summary if there is interest or even an issue here :-)
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