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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Wangtek PC-36 controller upgrade ?
Message-ID: <3319@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 05:02:28 GMT
References: <91Feb28.142411est.2093@ois.db.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <91Feb28.142411est.2093@ois.db.toronto.edu> tron@db.toronto.edu ("Carlos G. Mendioroz") writes:

| This controller has worked fine
| on AT's and on a Wyse-386 (16Mz) but is refusing to work now on 
| an Everex step 20. (It reads tapes but does not write them ok,
| some problem with the file-mark writing phase...)

  By any chance are you running your bus faster, or forcing zero wait
states on the AT bus? I ran one of those on a 486-25 without problems,
but I believe they dislike anything faster than 8MHz bus, 1w/s.
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