jkg@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee) (09/23/90)
In article <5510@kd4nc.UUCP> cld@kd4nc.UUCP (Charles D'Englere) writes: >A local company has some 6310 and 6300 Plus boards and if memory >serves me they want $50.00 with a 30 day warranty. I went by there (Delta Electronics) today and picked up a 6310 motherboard for $49.95 plus tax. They have three more in sealed boxes plus one that's "loose" (i.e., no box). Delta has no documentation for them (which partly explains this posting :-). This looked like a very cheap way to upgrade my 6300 (no plus) to something with more memory that might run some variant of UNIX. Now I'm not so sure. What I got (according to the label) is this: 6310 Mother Board MPU: 80286-8 Clock: 8 MHz Memory: 512K (256 15 x 18 pc.) ROM Version: 2.10 on two 27128A COM Code: 405371550 FA #: 31636 The 6310 motherboard has most of the right connections in the right places (connectors for serial/parallel/keyboard and the bus expansion board). Some of the things that are missing are a connector for the floppy disk (which is perfectly logical, considering there's no floppy disk controller :-), and the +12V/-12V connector right next to the power and ground lugs. There's also a corner chopped out where the reset switch is on the 6300 motherboard. The "extra" stuff consists of two IDC connectors - a 20-pin connector near where the power and ground lugs connect, and a 10-pin connector about four inches from the speaker. The function of these is not readily apparent, but there are several 3-state buffers and latches near each connector. There are sockets for an 8087 and up to 512K more RAM. There are also several sets of jumpers scattered around. If you hold the board so that the speaker is on the left, the jumpers are configured is follows (top to bottom): JU1 JU2 JU3 JU4 JU5 in out out in in in in in out in in in out out out in in out out out out out Now the big question - what would it take to get this up and running in my 6300 (no plus)? I expect the least I'll need is a floppy controller card (no duh :-). I have a Western Digital hard disk controller in it already, so that's taken care of. I have also disabled the built-in video card, and am using an STB Multi-Res II. I hope that doesn't present any problems. From the software side, I'd be interested in knowing if the same UNIX that runs on the 6300+ would run on the 6310 as well. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. If someone can advise me on where to get documentation or technical specs for this thing (particularly jumper settings), that would be great. Thanks. Jim Greenlee -- Jim Greenlee - Instructor, School of ICS, Georgia Tech jkg@cc.gatech.edu Jryy, abj lbh'ir tbar naq qbar vg! Whfg unq gb xrrc svqqyvat jvgu vg hagvy lbh oebxr vg, qvqa'g lbh?!
dave@westmark.WESTMARK.COM (Dave Levenson) (09/23/90)
In article <14001@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jkg@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee) writes: > In article <5510@kd4nc.UUCP> cld@kd4nc.UUCP (Charles D'Englere) writes: > >A local company has some 6310 and 6300 Plus boards and if memory > >serves me they want $50.00 with a 30 day warranty. ... I strongly suggest that you get a copy of AT&T's Hardware Reference Manual for the 6310, comcode 105293534. This is available from their Customer Information Center, 800-432-6600 and they take credit-card orders over the phone. This book has schematics, and pin-outs for the connectors, and definitions for the jumpers. The 6310 is an AT-compatible version of the 6300PLUS. It was designed to work with AT-style hard/floppy disk controllers such as the Western Digital WD1003WA2, which won't fit into the buss expansion board in the 6300 or the PLUS. (The 6310 comes with AT-compatible 16-bit slots.) > From the software side, I'd be interested in knowing if the same UNIX that > runs on the 6300+ would run on the 6310 as well. Any and all help would be > greatly appreciated. If someone can advise me on where to get documentation > or technical specs for this thing (particularly jumper settings), that would > be great. Thanks. No, that UNIX only works on the PLUS. One reason is that it requires that the upper 384 kbytes of ram be addressed at the top of the 16-Mbyte address space of the 80286. That's where it is on the PLUS. The 6310 is AT-compatible, so the upper 384 kbytes of its first megabyte are located at 1 Mbyte. The 6310 will support Microport V/AT, and AT-compatible XENIX, as well as OS/2 and good old MS-DOS. -- Dave Levenson Internet: dave@westmark.com Westmark, Inc. UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave Warren, NJ, USA AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] Voice: 908 647 0900 Fax: 908 647 6857