sarge@percival.UUCP (Rod Sargent) (01/17/89)
I recently purchased an expansion board for my A2000 to enhance the
MS-DOS (Bridgeboard) side of the machine. My understanding is that this
card is an AST 6 Pack + Clone with 128k of memory . After installing the
board, I find that the clock, serial port, and parallel ports work just
fine. Unfortunately, the 128k of additional memory is not functioning.
The dealer tells me to take a bank of ram from the 512k already on
the bridgeboard and add it to the existing 128k already on the expansion
card. Thus, reconfiguring the system to allow for expansion memory
recognition.
Intuitively, this seems wrong and before I take my $2000+ investment
in my 2000 & Bridgeboard into a gamble, I would like to hear what others
think about this. Is this a standard mechanism for "expanding memory"
on MS DOS machines or with Bridgeboards? I am told that the starting
adress is indeed $80000 as described in the bridgeboard's measely document-
ation. Moving chips from the motherboard to the expansion board, however,
does not make much sense to me....does it to anyone else?
Rod Sargent
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