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- From: v505pda4@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jerome J Schentag)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
- Subject: Re: SCO Xenix compatability & Systems
- Keywords: Xenix compatability
- Message-ID: <BxGn8t.AMq@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 17:58:00 GMT
- References: <1228@consult.UUCP>
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- In article <1228@consult.UUCP>, bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey CDP) writes...
- >We have recently been doing some testing for several clients
- >about running SCO Xenix 386 v2.3.4 on various machines.
- >I know that most of the major names have been listed in the SCO
- >compatability list, but... What about all the rest of the machines
- >that seem to be popping up everywhere?
- >
- >We have seen problems on several machines (486/33 & 486/50) where it
- >has problems booting the N1 diskette. Comes up with a string of "EEEE"'s.
- >The number of EEE's will vary. Sometimes it will come to the Boot:
- >prompt and many times it will not???
- >
- >The machines have AMI BIOS, and various controllers.
- >--
- >>.. Bob Willey, CDP .. | .. uunet!consult!bob bob@ccs.com ..<
-
- We had the same problem when we decided to upgrade our Xenix system to a 486-33
- from a 384-40. I discovered that when I turned off the internal and external
- 486 cache (which the AMI bios I had allowed) The system would boot normally
- but was slower than the 386 (bummer 8-( .) After a call to tech support
- for the hardware suggested turning on one wait state for the cache everything
- worked fine. It was amazing, first time I actually got a correct answer to a
- problem in less than 30 seconds. Seems that the machine works fine with
- 0 wait state cache under dos, but needs 1 wait state in cache for Xenix.
- Hope this helps
-
- Marty Adelman
- cpl-mfh!martya@cc.buffalo.edu
- cc.buffalo.edu!cpl-mfh!martya
-