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From: angelini@irisa.fr (Pierre Antoine Angelini)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: PC-NFS 3.01, WD8003E and 386SX
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.170706.14930@irisa.fr>
Date: 30 Oct 90 17:07:06 GMT
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Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr)
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Hello,
I have been using PC-NFS with 3C501 and WD8003E on XT and AT for a long 
time without any special problem.
When it came to use it on 386SX, appeared one problem that I haven't been
able to solve.
3C501 works fine on 386SX, but WD8003E hangs PC-NFS on the first "net" command.
I think it's because of the shared memory.
My 386SX has 2MO of ram,and WD8003E allows you to map shared memory from
C4000 to FE0000 using the /m switch.
I tried many values from D0000 to D40000,etc.... It hangs each time and I need
to do a hard reset.
It looks like there is a conflict between Ram and WD8003E memory in this range.

Am I right ?
Did anybody meet that problem and solve it?

The 386SX in an AST BRAVO, with extended memory LIM 4.0, VGA screen.
Config.sys looks like :

device=pcnfs.sys
device=wd8003E /i3 /p280 /m(Whatever you want)
device=sockdrv.sys


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