MJB@cup.portal.com (Martin J Brown-Jr) (01/20/89)
I've got an Escort2, from Expansion Technologies, with 2megs in it. I like it
well enough, EXCEPT, neither vd0: or RAD: will survive a warm reboot via
C-A-A. It will survive a warm reboot caused by a GURU. I called Expansion Tech
about this, and their response was that it just depends on the particular
A1000 it is hooked upto. On some machines, a C-A-A will work and on some it
won't. They said that also, some times doing a C-A-A real quickly will work on
those machines that normally C-A-A won't work on. The real quick method has
only worked once. This A1000 has worked properly in these respects with an
ASDG Mini-Rack. This leads me to believe that the Escort hardware design is
not upto snuff.
Can anyone shed some light on this? Since it RAD:/vd0: will survive a GURU
reboot, I'm hopeful that someone on the net can lead me to a minor hardware
hack, or even more hopefully a software fix. Any ideas?? Thanx for your time!
- MJB -perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) (01/22/89)
Your problem has nothing to do with your A1000 as you have guessed.
Some Expansion Technology's memory boxes don't refresh during reset
(hence the laughable suggesting to C-A-A ``quickly''). Call them up
and ask them if your serial number (board and box) are one of those
that don't refresh ram during reset.
--
Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
ARPA: madnix!perry@cs.wisc.edu {uunet|ncoast}!marque!
UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perrymhcoen@athena.mit.edu (Michael H. Coen) (01/25/89)
Hi. I vaguely remember an article in the Transactor (from an issue
last year) about Escort2's which were losing vd0: on c-a-a's. They
listed a simple fix which grounded something on the Escort to the
ground on the Amy bus. I can't remember any more details, but maybe
this will jog someone else's memory.
Michael H. Coen
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