Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!tank!uxc!ksuvax1!eecea!terry From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Bell Tech W.G.E. use with "sissy" unix Message-ID: <432@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> Date: 10 Oct 88 13:34:37 GMT References: <438@l5comp.UUCP> <428@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> <771@drexel.UUCP> Reply-To: terry@eecea..eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan Lines: 42 In article <771@drexel.UUCP> you write: >Terry Hull writes > > >> [Stuff about my system deleted] >> -- >There should be absolutely no problem with the INBOARD, since the INBOARD >the ideal arrangement: The ending address for caching is set by switches >on the card. Typically, one sets them for the end of physical memory, >while dual ported and memory mapped registers are addressed above this. >I have checked this point out with INTEL technical support: the INBOARD >is completely compatible with cards like the W.G.E. because the cache >does not function above the end address. > >Please post your results Terry - I'd realy like to know if you get >X up on XENIX. Are they offering V11 yet? Now I am really confused. I talked to Christine Burr at Bell Tech last Thursday and she told me that the WGE would absolutely NOT work with the Inboard. Is there some other problem with the Inboard that causes it not to work with the WGE? Did Christine just hear the word "cache" and say "Oops, this will not work?" Unfortunately, I am doing this on my personal computer budget, and purchasing a $995 card from Bell Tech along with a $500 monitor and having the thing not work would not be acceptable. While I think I could get my money back from Bell Tech, I'm sure the company that I bought the monitor from would not feel the same way. I will be more than happy to post my results to the net when (if) I get X running on XENIX. Unfortunately, it may be a while. The upgrades to 2.3.0 are still not shipping from SCO, and that will be required before I can try. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University INTERNET: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu Manhattan, KS 66502 UUCP: {pyramid,ucsd}!ncr-sd!ncrwic!ksuvax1!eecea!terry