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From: jsh@druco.ATT.COM (John S. Helton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Adding 8087 to AT&T 6300
Message-ID: <3806@druco.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 16:12:05 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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>From stanwyck Thu Feb 23 15:01:27 1989
>...
>I recently acquired an 8087-2 for addition to my AT&T PC 6300.  After
>physically installing it,..
>...   I got only one message on the
>screen, at which point the machine was locked.  The message was:
>
>	DMA FAILURE 02



Don,
	How physical were you when you installed it?  I suspect not enough.
Try banging on the DMA chip with a ballpeen. !-)

John Helton
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