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From: learn@igloo.UUCP (william vajk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: XENIX VS Micoport
Summary: other motherboards
Message-ID: <379@igloo.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 14:42:53 GMT
References: <16217@watmath.waterloo.edu> <166@bhjat.UUCP> <366@igloo.UUCP> <428@cimcor.UUCP>
Organization: igloo, Northbrook, IL
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In article <428@cimcor.UUCP>, mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) writes:
> > 
> > 	Igloo, too, has 2 serial ports, a no-name AT clone board and some
> > monster disk drives. It, too, has news running, but ONLY when Bill shuts
> > down EVERY user to do the poll. He's running at 2400 baud now, and going to
> 
> 
> Strange, my Microport system with the same configuration seems to work
> great. Perhaps, your no name clone does have problems.

Your statement might bear some validity, but we emplaced a name brand
known good and working 20 MHz '386 motherboard in the box for a weekend,
complete with 4 megs of simm ram, and experienced the same problems.
We have swapped about several well known sio cards, including a dumb 8
digiboard (presently on loan to another system and running fine under
xenix.) 

The only parts of this system that have not been test exchanged are the
CGA card, the HD controller card, and the fast HD's themselves( a 40 meg
seagate, and a 72 meg miniscribe.) These too will be swapped for testing,
but all indications are that the problems lie with the software. I have
witnessed the same problems igloo sees on stock Televideo and Tetung
machines. Maybe they were hardware problems too. Strange that xenix
runs just fine on them.

Igloo now sports a trailblazer, running polls at 9600. The new sio
driver here for beta test from uport works nicely.

Bill Vajk                                       learn@igloo