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From: kory@avatar.com (Kory Hamzeh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Problems with Mylex 486 Motherboard
Message-ID: <1991Jun02.201725.355@avatar.com>
Date: 2 Jun 91 20:17:25 GMT
Organization: Avatar Consultants
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I recently purchased the Mylex MAE486 33 Mhz EISA motherboard. I have
16MB of memory using 4 4MBx9 NEC 70ns SIMMs. The hard disk controller
is the Adaptec ACB2322B. The tape controller is the Archive 499R and
I have a Orchid Prodesigner II VGA card.

The problem that I seem to be having is that when I write to my floppy
drive or tape drive, I get either fatal parity error or the system
hangs. This happens both under dos and sco unix. I can, however, read
from the floppy and tape drive. I can read and write to the hard disk
without any problems.

I have tried all different combinations of speed and cache.

Mylex has not been very helpful. In the past, they have been very helpful
in solving problems that I have had with their other boards.

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
kory



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