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From: marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AppleShare PC woes
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Date: 31 Aug 90 04:06:23 GMT
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In article <44394@apple.Apple.COM> shoemake@Apple.COM (Mike Shoemaker) writes:
>marinell@Iris1.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Kevin Marinelli) writes:
>
>
>Does your '386 run the bus at greater than 8MHz clock speed?  The LocalTalk
>PC card is beligerant at bus speeds greater than 8MHz. (As are many other
>add-in cards.)
>
   As with most AT or 386 machines, yes my computer runs faster than 8Mhz. It
can run at 10 or 16Mhz. Both speeds are > 8MHz.

>Also, if you have a 33MHz '386, there have been similar problems reported.

   I seem to have gotten arround most of the flakeyness in the card by 
setting the buffers and memory space used by AppleTalk to higher than normal
values in the NET.CFG.  I have not had a system crash in 2 days that can be
attributed to the AppleShare software. Initially, when installed according
to the directions in the manuals it would crash my system each time it was 
used.

>
>I don't know of any MLID's for Western Digital Cards.  The DayStar Digital
>LocalTalk PC card (Model LT200PC and LT200MC) are supported by AppleShare
>PC.  They have an on-board Z80 which speeds throughput (10%) and puts
>less burden on the host CPU.  It is a polled only card and requires no
>interrupts nor DMA channels.

    Too bad, I was looking forward to seeing if the software would be more
stable in an ethernet  environment.  Is there any probability of Apple 
developing an MLID that uses a packet driver to do the interfacing to the 
I/O card?  That would be a great enhancement to the AppleShare product,
 because packet drivers exist for several ethernet cards that are not 
supported by Apple and you would only have to write one MLID to add "support"
for those extra cards.
.
>
>Mike Shoemaker
>Network Connectivity Development
>Apple Computer, Inc.

Kevin Marinelli