elee6wk@jetson.uh.edu (04/29/91)
Greetings!
Here is my question:
I have a DTK 1230C motherboard with 1 meg ram on it, two serial ports,
1 parallel port( PPort is disabled). (com2, 3)
I also have the following add-in cards:
AST Rampage 286 (Holds up to 8 meg using 1 meg simms) w/5 meg on it.
Calculus EZFax card (4800 Baud Version)
Western Digital WD-1003-WA2 card w/ a MicroScience HH-1050 and a
Maxtor XT-1140 hard drive
Zuckerboard ATD multi-IO card (1 serial, 1 parallel) com1, lpt2
generic MGP card (lpt1)
ProArcnet arcnet card (SMC-130 compatible)
Western Digital VGA 16B card
Before I put the arcnet card in the machine, I had the following
setup, roughly:
640K base, 4 meg extended, 1 meg expanded (The 384K block I never
could find. The AST driver started linear memory addressing @1408K)
config sys file did the following of note: (in this order)
loaded the ems driver
loaded the xma driver
loaded the microsoft disk cache for windows 3.0
loaded the calculus ems handler and background operation
then ran out of environment space.
I then checked all of my interrupts with checkit diagnostic software
to try and determine an interrupt for the arcnet card. IRQ 2 in this
machine is a cascade, so I set the card to IRQ 2. After I turned the
machine on, the xms wouldn't load properly, as well as the MS disk
cache. I tried all of the different memory, address and IRQ settings
to no avail. I would always lose some part of the machine with every
configuation.
Now I need ALL of these cards and products, since I work out of the
house as a software applications consultant. Can anyone shed some
light as to where I might do things differently so that the arcnet
card will work?
Should I get a new arcnet card of some other type like the thomas
conrad 1642 series? The NOS in question is Lantastic 3.02 AI. I have
actually set up this NOS in about 12 different client sites, and have
not had any problems with their installations. I guess since my
machine is completely loaded down with ports I need to re-evaluate
this scenario.
Any options or tricks would be greatly appreciated. If anyone out
there can tell me anything about HeadRoom ( a ram manager), I would
appreciate it.
regards
Bill Sanders, University of Houston
Electrical Engineering Student at Large
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