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From: ftanaka@polyslo.UUCP (Forrest Tanaka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II ROM update
Message-ID: <1399@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 04:44:56 GMT
References: <1370@polyslo.UUCP>
Reply-To: ftanaka@polyslo.UUCP (Forrest Tanaka)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
Lines: 38
Keywords: Mac II, ROM, Slot Manager

In article <1370@polyslo.UUCP> lchirica@polyslo.UUCP (Laurian Chirica) writes:
>
>It has been reported (e.g., Macintosh Today in one of its January
>issues) that Apple will release a new ROM for Mac II which fixes
>some of the Slot Manager problems in the present release.
>My Apple dealer does not have any official information from
>Apple.  Did anyone get the new ROM and is willing to post some
>information/impressions?  Does it do more than just fix the Slot
>Manager problems?  

What I heard was that Macintosh IIs with Rev. A ROMs can't recognise NuBus
cards with more than 1MB in their address space.  Also, one of the support
chips allows a NuBus card to take over the bus for good.

These problems are fixed under the Rev. B ROMs.  If you have a NuBus card
with a >1MB address space, you can get your logic board replaced at no
charge until February 1994, I think it was.  Even though the ROMs are
socketed, the whole board still has to be replaced because the NuBus
support chip is soldered in.

I don't own a Macintosh II (just a Plus, which was the top of the line
when I bought it not so long ago. . .  *sniff* :-)).  So I don't know how
well the upgrade works.  I haven't heard anything bad.  Dealers should
know about it though.  The upgrade's been available since February 1st.

Forrest

>-- 
>Laurian M. Chirica  (lchirica@polyslo.UUCP)
>Computer Science Department
>California Polytechnic State University (CAL POLY)
>San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 - (805) 756-1332


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    Diablo #25, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93410
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