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From: hdrw@ibmpcug.co.uk (Howard Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,connect.audit
Subject: Re: Followup to "IDE hard drive pauses... sometimes."
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.082452.16571@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jun 91 08:24:52 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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(On the subject of the latest AMI BIOS for a 386 with Cache being dated
1989).

Someone is either dishonest or misinformed.  I have an Octek 386-33
motherboard with 64K cache, and the AMI BIOS date is 01/03/91.

I don't know whether each manufacturer has to have their own version of
the BIOS (my board has the SIS chipset) or if the same one will work on
all boards.  It doesn't seem likely that for current technology boards
(OK, 486 is here but 386s  are still selling like hot cakes) that the
latest software would be 2+ years old.

Perhaps the manufacturer of your board doesn't have a later BIOS, but 
AMI themselves may be able to supply something ?  Whatever, I would go
back to the supplier and get them to sort it out properly.

Good luck,
Howard.

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hdrw@ibmpcug.Co.UK     Howard Winter     0W21'  51N43'