Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: trouble with WD8003e board Message-ID: <1991Feb18.111704.2961@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 17 Feb 91 22:17:04 GMT References: <1991Feb14.233331.28653@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <15167@uudell.dell.com> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 34 In article <15167@uudell.dell.com>, sblair@upurbmw.dell.com (Steve Blair) writes: > You might want to run the WDSETUP.EXE that comes on the floppy > with it to "insure" that the addr in RAM is what you believe > it to be. This is doable on the 8bit cards, but alas ;< the > 16 bit cards have the hard coded jumpers... > > -- > Steve Blair DELL UNIX DIVISION sblair@upurbmw.dell.com > ================================================================ Bzzt! Sorry, but the address of the shared RAM segment is set at run time, by software not hardware selectable. The only settable configurations by hardware, or equivalent in newer cards. The Interrupt (5 is good 3 is default), the I/O base address (280 is old default not sure about newer cards 240?), and if the card has a ROM socket, then you can set the size and memory address of the ROM. RAM doesn't have a setting you notice. The RAM is configured by the driver, be it IPX,Packet driver or other. Using the packet driver you can set the RAM address anywhere you like just by changing a parameter on the command line. Shared RAM size is set autpmatically by the packet driver, and configured into IPX (as is address) when the IPX is generated (On Novell). -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================