jim@bahamut.fsc.com (James O'Connor) (04/10/90)
In article <379@mplex.UUCP>, fff@mplex.UUCP (Fred Fierling) writes: > I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has had experience running Xenix on > a Jameco JE3520 80386 AT motherboard replacement (20 MHz, no cache). Things > like: > > - does it work with Xenix? > - documentation any good? > - quality of construction? > - vendor support? We use many of the motherboards sold by Jameco. I don't have my catalog handy, but I can describe them. They are all manufactured by American Megatrends, Incorporated, who also supplies a lot of 386 BIOS systems. We have in our company 2 16-MHz with cache, one 20 MHz without cache, and 2 33-MHz with cache. All three boards run Xenix and Unix just fine, although the caching boards loose access to a little bit (128k, I think) due to the "Shadow BIOS" feature. I think the 20MHz no cache board actually lets Xenix see all the RAM. The first 33MHz board we bought has been a little flaky lately, but the one we just bought (installed last Saturday, 4/7) had a newer BIOS revision (which is even nicer the older version, which already included built-in setup and diagnostic routines) and it seems to be working just great. The only real trouble I've had with any of these boards is getting a Bell Tech ACE serial port board to work with the 33MHz motherboard, but I think the real trouble is that the ACE board is damaged. Everything else works great, and everything else includes SCSI adapters, Ethernet boards, and all kinds of serial ports. I recommend the AMI boards highly. ------------- James B. O'Connor Work: jim@tiamat.fsc.com Data Processing Manager Play: jim@bahamut.fsc.com Ahlstrom Filtration, Inc. UUCP: uunet!tiamat!jim