marc@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Marc Saes) (05/14/91)
Well, the title says it all, does anyone have experience or information regarding the ETEQ chip set or MRBIOS? I'm interested in running sysV 4.0 on such a board. Thanks. Marc.
ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (05/15/91)
->Well, the title says it all, does anyone have experience or ->information regarding the ETEQ chip set or MRBIOS? I'm ->interested in running sysV 4.0 on such a board. ->Thanks. ->Marc. Hi, Marc. From Marc. I have been running this board for over a month without any major problems (the minor one is it doesn't like DR DOS 5.0). DOS 3.3, 4.01 and 5.0 work alright. I have not tried UNIX, but it has been tested extensively by the clone maker (Micro Gen) with SCO UNIX w/o any problems that I am aware of (but then I haven't run UNIX on it, anyway 8-8). It supports Sound Blaster! 8-)
jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) (05/30/91)
In article <1093@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes: >Well, the title says it all, does anyone have experience or >information regarding the ETEQ chip set or MRBIOS? I'm >interested in running sysV 4.0 on such a board. >Thanks. UNIX runs in protected mode, and, therefore, doesn't use the ROM BIOS. The BIOS is only used to boot UNIX, and then UNIX uses it's own device drivers to talk directly to the hardware. -- Jerry Gardner, NJ6A Altos Computer Systems UUCP: {sun|pyramid|sco|amdahl|uunet}!altos!jerry 2641 Orchard Parkway Internet: jerry@altos.com San Jose, CA 95134 Help stamp out vi in our lifetime. (408) 432-6200
caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) (06/01/91)
In article <4906@gumby.Altos.COM> jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) writes: -In article <1093@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes: ->Well, the title says it all, does anyone have experience or ->information regarding the ETEQ chip set or MRBIOS? I'm ->interested in running sysV 4.0 on such a board. ->Thanks. I'm running SCO ODT on a "Smart E-TEQ 486 Mainboard" with 256k cache and 16MB of RAM (1 MB simms). It runs twice as fast as a 386/33 on the integer benchamrks I've tried. The first sample had something wrong with the I/O bus, which made initilizing the A floppy drive iffy. The second sample has not evidenced any problems in its first 24 hours of Unix. A more complete definition of the BIOS parameters would be welcome. A 50 MHz "Ice Cap" board caused Unix to panic when attempting to run 286 programs or DOS emulators.