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From: koehn@vms.macc.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with 8*24 GC card
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.225705.17519@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 22:55:01 GMT
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In article <91079.014822RAFI@BGUVM.BITNET>, RAFI@BGUVM.BITNET (Rafi Brunner) writes...

>I've installed a 8/24 GC card on my FX, and found out that by switching the
>accelleration on (on the 8/24 cdev) some of the access to the floppy drives
>is unabled. Besides encountering systems hangs while accessing the floppys
>I also get crashes using Norton UTs on a floppy or using DiskTop DA.
>Switching the acceleration of stops all the problems. There is no init conflict
>since I've tried it with plain vanila system, and the problem repeated itself.
>Any help from the net?

I have an fx with a similar configuration (8*24 GC, two floppies, GPIB card) and 
have had no problems with the accelleration (or turning it off, for that 
matter). This won't help you solve your problem, but hey, at least now you know 
it can be done.

Brad Koehn
UW-Madison
brad_medil@media.medsch.wisc.edu