Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!westmark!dave From: dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: 6310 motherboards (was: 6300 parts) Message-ID: <1038@westmark.WESTMARK.COM> Date: 23 Sep 90 05:00:19 GMT References: <5510@kd4nc.UUCP> <14001@hydra.gatech.EDU> Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 39 In article <14001@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jkg@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee) writes: > In article <5510@kd4nc.UUCP> cld@kd4nc.UUCP (Charles D'Englere) writes: > >A local company has some 6310 and 6300 Plus boards and if memory > >serves me they want $50.00 with a 30 day warranty. ... I strongly suggest that you get a copy of AT&T's Hardware Reference Manual for the 6310, comcode 105293534. This is available from their Customer Information Center, 800-432-6600 and they take credit-card orders over the phone. This book has schematics, and pin-outs for the connectors, and definitions for the jumpers. The 6310 is an AT-compatible version of the 6300PLUS. It was designed to work with AT-style hard/floppy disk controllers such as the Western Digital WD1003WA2, which won't fit into the buss expansion board in the 6300 or the PLUS. (The 6310 comes with AT-compatible 16-bit slots.) > From the software side, I'd be interested in knowing if the same UNIX that > runs on the 6300+ would run on the 6310 as well. Any and all help would be > greatly appreciated. If someone can advise me on where to get documentation > or technical specs for this thing (particularly jumper settings), that would > be great. Thanks. No, that UNIX only works on the PLUS. One reason is that it requires that the upper 384 kbytes of ram be addressed at the top of the 16-Mbyte address space of the 80286. That's where it is on the PLUS. The 6310 is AT-compatible, so the upper 384 kbytes of its first megabyte are located at 1 Mbyte. The 6310 will support Microport V/AT, and AT-compatible XENIX, as well as OS/2 and good old MS-DOS. -- Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave Warren, NJ, USA AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857