Re[2]: IBM 5250 emulation boards and client acc

Neil,

I've heard that some ISA boards won't run in newer PCs because they were 
designed for 8Mhz ISA bus. I believe that many newer PCs have accelerated ISA 
bus. There might be a setting for that in the BIOS setup. 

Eric A DeLong

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Subject: RE: IBM 5250 emulation boards and client acc 
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INTERNET
Date:    8/24/98 7:01 PM


No, it's not guaranteed to cause locks/hangs, but it HAS occured at 3 of 
our customers in the last 6 months !
In the one case I looked at personally, I could see no conflict with 
either Memory or IRQ settings.
     
     
     
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:        Jerome Draper [SMTP:jdraper@wco.com] 
> Sent:        Monday, August 24, 1998 7:47 PM
> To:        MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:        RE: IBM 5250 emulation boards and client acc 
> 
> At 12:14 PM 8/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >If you're currently using Ethernet &/or Token-Ring, then maybe the 
> best
> >thing to do with these cards is to cover them up again, or give them 
> >away.  You can't use a Twinax card in the same PC as an Ethernet or 
> >Token-Ring card.  It's not supported by IBM, and will cause
> hangs/lock
> >ups on the PC.
> 
> A lot of stuff on PC's are not supported by IBM.  Like Windows. 
> 
> You can certainly use twinax cards in PC's with ethernet or token ring 
> cards.  It does not necessarily cuase hangs/lock ups on PC's.
> 
> The issue is to resolve hardware conflicts within the PC.  If the LAN 
> card
> is using the same I/O or interrupt as the twinax then, of course, 
> neither
> will work.  If there are no conflicts, the all is well and they can 
> co-exist.  
> 
> This is one reason the Synapse WinTwin adapter I 
> sell/recommend/support is
> so useful.  There are no DOS TSR's, no DMA, no Shared Ram, and no 
> interrupts consumed so it does not slow the PC down like the BOS 
> Stealth
> cards or make installation difficult (most other cards).  What's your 
> time
> worth?  I don't blame IBM by just saying we don't support twinax and 
> LAN in
> the same PC.  I feel like saying the same thing every day to some of 
> my
> customers.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> 
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