phil@pepsi.amd.com (02/28/90)
Recently a friend of mine bought a WD1006 RLL disk controller.
When he plugged it into his AST Premium 286 with a Paradise VGA
clone, it didn't work. We tried the WD in my 386sx and it worked fine. I
noticed the WD had an 8-bit BIOS so I suggested he change his
Paradise VGA to 8-bit BIOS also, even though it was supposed to
auto-sense that.
He did it and now his computer works fine.
The moral of the story is: beware of auto-sensing devices. If
it doesn't work, try forcing everything in the 128Kbyte area
to 8-bits. The reasons for this are highly technical and have
been explained in a previous posting of mine.
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