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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: What's this INTERACTIVE EISA patch?
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.162530.3363@virtech.uucp>
Date: 23 Dec 90 16:25:30 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.195532.1163@ism.isc.com> <1990Dec14.144153.12315@virtech.uucp> <1990Dec23.014657.22214@medicus.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Dec23.014657.22214@medicus.com> mca@medicus.com (Mark Adams) writes:
>
>Can anyone provide more details on this "EISA fix" for INTERACTIVE? What
>specific problems is it supposed to fix? What versions of INTERACTIVE
>does it pertain to? I ask because we've been running DigiBoard's
>DigiCHANNEL C/16 EISA cards under 2.02 and 2.2 for awhile now without
>difficulty. Are we just lucky?

I *think* the problems are associated with using memory above 16MB - be it 
main memory, adaptor memory, etc.  I'm not sure if there were any other
problems.  We had ISC UNIX 2.2 runing on a 486/25 EISA and could only
address memory <=16MB.  We had some problems booting with a Weitek 4167,
but have yet to try it with the EISA patch to see if that problem has
been fixed.


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