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- From: DGH@herald.divinity.yale.edu (Duane Harbin)
- Subject: 3C503 packet driver and SDLC
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- Organization: Yale Divinity Library
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 18:03:23 GMT
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- Can anyone suggest some appropriate voodoo to make a 3C503 operated under
- the Clarkson packet driver co-habitate pleasantly with a Synchronous Data
- Link Controller?
- The SDLC is apparently a pretty nasty piece of work. It insists on Interrupt
- 3 and DMA channel 1. The packet driver addresses the issue of interrupt, but
- not the DMA channel. Actually, it looks as if the 3C503 packet driver isn't
- supposed to be using DMA at all.
- Further info:
- System: IBM XT/286, 640K RAM
- OS: DOS 3.30
- NOS: Netware 3.11
- PD: 3C503.COM version 9.4.1 (Card is set for shared memory base DC000)
- There is a particular application that utilizes the SDLC. The network and
- the application will both start out fine. However, if the SDLC application
- is running and attempts to access network services, e.g. printing, the
- system freezes up. If one shells out of the SDLC application and attempts to
- switch to a network drive, the system freezes.
- Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.
- Duane Harbin
- Information Services Librarian
- Yale Divinity School Library
- 203/432-5289
- DGH@herald.divinity.yale.edu
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