Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!erd From: erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wedge and Bus Expander (from Bills Boards) Message-ID: <75187@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 29 Dec 89 16:21:41 GMT References: <4251@scolex.sco.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Ethan R Dicks Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 39 In article <4251@scolex.sco.COM> brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes: > > >2 questions from people who have these boards: > >Wedge: Does this pass all PC lines through? Something I read > says it converts IBM St506 controllers to the amiga. > If I want to use an IBM Video card in it instead, would > that work? > As an owner of a WEDGE 1000 and a WEDGE 500, these are my $0.02 USD... The WEDGE is an 8 bit mapping of I/O space into Amiga memory space. The interrupt lines are not run by default, but are present in the circuit (a jumper and interrupt compatible software are required). You can put into the WEDGE, parallel cards, serial cards, disk interfaces and even game I/O cards. I don't believe that there is enough mapping space for a video card. On my WEDGE 1000, I have had a multi-slot backplane (Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar's passive AT backplane) but never got around to writing driver software. The WEDGE 500 should also be able to take more slots, but power and mechanical considerations must be addressed first. Good Luck -ethan >thanks much > >brian moffet -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 940 Freeway Drive N. | ## Columbus OH 43229 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."