Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!uudell!Kepler!mjhammel From: mjhammel@Kepler.dell.com (Michael J. Hammel) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: trouble with WD8003e board Message-ID: <15268@uudell.dell.com> Date: 18 Feb 91 23:46:39 GMT References: <1991Feb18.111704.2961@waikato.ac.nz> <1991Feb14.233331.28653@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <15167@uudell.dell.com> Sender: news@uudell.dell.com Reply-To: mjhammel@Kepler.dell.com (Michael J. Hammel) Organization: Dell Computer Corp. Lines: 38 In article <1991Feb18.111704.2961@waikato.ac.nz>, hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes: > 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... > 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. This is not true for every WD card. Older WD8003E's (I believe) are as you say. WD8003EB's and WD8003EP's are software setable. The WD8013 (16 bit card) is configurable only with jumpers, but has many more options than those you list. I think Steve was considering the ones we deal with most here, the WD8003EB. > > 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). Again, it depends on the specific card. Some can be set by software, some not. Michael J. Hammel | mjhammel@{Kepler|socrates}.dell.com Dell Computer Corp. | {73377.3467|76424.3024}@compuserve.com #include | zzham@ttuvm1.bitnet | uunet!uudell!feynman!mjhammel #define CUTESAYING "Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way."