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From: daveb@pyuxf.UUCP (david berk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Combo Card Problems
Message-ID: <472@pyuxf.UUCP>
Date: 25 Dec 88 23:03:32 GMT
Organization: Bell Communications Research
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I have a 3B1 with 2MB ram on mother board and a 2MB expansion card occupying
one of the system expansion slots.

I also have an Expansion Unit which had 2 dual eia port boards plugged into the
the first two lowest priority slots.

Here's the problem ...

	Recently I purchased a "2 Port No RAM" card from Digital Data Systems.
After installing the card in the next empty slot of the Expansion Unit, 
I tried setting up the additional ports in the "Hardware Setup/RS232 
Expansion Setup" screen. The system still only recognized Ports 1 thru 4.
There was no choice for New Ports 5 and 6.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the EIA/RAM Combo Expansion Disk
but still got the same results.

Here are a few questions ...

	Can the Expansion bus accomodate three of these cards?

	Is there a difference between a dual eia port card versus a
	2 port no ram card that I bought ? I do realize that I cannot put
	memory boards in the expansion bus, is it possible that even though
	there is 0K	the board is set up via some jumper to be a 
	memory board thus causing it to be ignored by my system?

If anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

Dave Berk
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