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From: stev@VAX.FTP.COM
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Subject: Re: Toshiba T3200 and the LANalyzer
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Date: 5 Jan 89 21:57:11 GMT
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*of selling a board level product. (For a good laugh, try running stuff --
*just about ANYTHING) in the recent IBM PS/2 Model 30/286. This is clearly
*the "PCjr" of AT-clones. It takes a special effort to make something so
*totally incompatible with existing AT cards, and I guess only IBM can
*afford to put the requisite number of engineers to the task! I think it
*must never have been tested with actual 16-bit cards with memory mapped
*buffers.


that is strange, we have one here, and have tested (and run) it with
both western digital 8003E and Interlan 5210 ethernet cards. we also
tried a BICC card, but it was an older rev (3.0? they are on at least
5.0 now) and it didnt work. while it is true these are not 16 bit
boards, i have not noticed any compatibility problems with the
machine. i have run both PC/TCP and LANWatch on the IBM Model 30/286
with no problems (other that the stupid screws on the case. this is
*not* one of the "PS/2 take apart with a quarter" machines.  and i
admit the was the connectors are attached to the motherboard leaves
something to be wished for (the same with the model 25).

as a side note, we have also run wd8003, ni5210 and DLINK cards in
our t3200's running LANWatch and PC/TCP. neither have given us any
problems.


stev knowles
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stev@ftp.com
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