Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!kessner!david From: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DTK computers Message-ID: <1991Mar12.102433.1590@kessner.denver.co.us> Date: 12 Mar 91 10:24:33 GMT References: <5075@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Mar11.103429.1354@infoac.rmi.de> Reply-To: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) Organization: Kessner, Inc Lines: 45 In article <1991Mar11.103429.1354@infoac.rmi.de> siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck ) writes: >laughner@composer.helios.nd.edu writes: >I had the PEMM 2500 (I think), 386, 25MHz, 64k Cache in use. Me Too! :) >For about 6 months (see further down). About 1.5 years. >I had endless hazzle trying to run a ISDN-adapter. It run well under MSDOS, >but NOT UNDER UNIX. The problem seems to be, that the board cannot use >word-I/O on the port, e.g. something like OUTW. I swapped the board for a >OPTI-25, and no more trouble. > >I guess, DTK will be ok under DOS, but of limited use under UNIX. Let me >repeat: The problem were only using one special add-on board, otherwise >I liked DTK very much. Hmmm sounds like a problem with the ISDN/UNIX interface-- although I have to admit that I have not tried to run ISDN anywhere. I have been running ESIX (System V 3.2) since last June without any hitch whatsoever. It is now configured with an IIT 387 compatable, WD8003 Eithernet card, Adaptec RLL controller, ATI VGA Wonder, and 12 meg of RAM. I also run two serial ports at 38400 baud without a hitch (using 16550 UARTS). >> Are they reliable? > >The board was running 6 months without switching power off. No problem. Same here, but for 1.5 years. I also like DTK very much-- but I have been into computers long enough to decipher their badly translated Tiwaneese. I always laugh about thier error message, "Parity Error But Segment Dosent Found." (I've been working with DTK's long ehough to cause my share of these.) >siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck) - David K -- David Kessner - david@kessner.denver.co.us | do { 1135 Fairfax, Denver CO 80220 (303) 377-1801 (p.m.) | . . . If you cant flame MS-DOS, who can you flame? | } while( jones);