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- TECHNICAL BULLETIN Western Digital Elite Series
- LANtastic AI 08.05.91
- LANtastic AI with Western Digital Ethernet adapter Page 1 of 2
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- The Western Digital Elite Series of Ethernet adapters has been
- tested in-house and are compatible with all other LANtastic Network
- Operating System software. This bulletin should replace all other
- notes generated from this office to date.
-
- The following information is based on in-house testing and customer
- support of LANtastic AI. If you are not a registered LANtastic
- owner, your questions should be directed to our technical sales
- staff at (602) 293-6363. Any questions or comments on this
- bulletin may be forwarded by FAX (602) 293-8065 or mailed to :
- Artisoft Inc., 575 East River Road, Tucson, AZ., 85704, ATTN:
- LANtastic AI Support.
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- RUNNING LANTASTIC AI WITH A WESTERN DIGITAL ELITE SERIES ADAPTER
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- The Elite 8 (8-bit) and Elite 16 (16-bit) are the current
- adapters from Western Digital. They are multi-media adapters,
- supporting the thick (10BASE5), thin (10BASE2; also called
- cheapernet or coaxial), and the twisted pair (10BASET) subsets of
- the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet specifications. Both adapters are supported
- with the WD8003.EXE program that is made available with
- LANTASTIC/AI 4.0.
-
- There are three jumpers in the upper middle section of the
- adapter. Two of them provide a predefined combination of IRQ,
- IOBASE and RAMBASE. It is very important that our WD8003 program's
- options match up with the hardware configuration. If neither of
- these two predefined combinations works, then you need to place
- that jumper on the SOFT setting, and use the WD-supplied EZSETUP
- program to configure the hardware.
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- TO TRY ONE OF THE PRE-DEFINED COMBINATIONS OF IRQ, IOBASE AND
- RAMBASE:
- 1) Jumper the appropriate pin, and take note of what IRQ, IOBASE
- and RAMBASE it is providing.
- 2) Run our WD8003 program, and make sure the software switches
- match the hardware configuration.
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- TO TRY A COMBINATION OF IRQ, IOBASE AND RAMBASE THAT IS NOT OFFERED
- AS A PREDEFINED OPTION.
- 1) Jumper the SOFT pin.
- 2) Run the Western Digital-supplied utility called EZSETUP to
- configure the hardware.
- 3) Run our WD8003 program, and make sure the software switches
- match the hardware configuration.
-
- Do not use the Western Digital NETBIOS software. However,
- the EZSETUP and the diagnostic programs should be run.
-
- After running the INSTALL program, our device driver
- called WD8003.EXE will be in the LANTASTI subdirectory, and will be
- the first program that you run. However, there is currently a
- problem with the WD8003 program where it will inadvertently take up
- more high memory than it should. ARTISOFT suggests that you start
- out using the 8-BIT software switch, at least until you can log in,
- and use the network to COPY large amounts of files. Once that
- works, try it without using the 8-BIT software switch.
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- EXAMPLE: IF the jumper were on the SOFT setting, AND IF
- EZSETUP had told the adapter to use and IRQ of 10 (NOTE: IRQs of 10
- or 15 need to have the 16-bit adapter in a 16-bit slot), an IOBASE
- of 300 and a RAMBASE of D800, then the WD8003 command line,
- including the 8-BIT software switch, would look like this (it does
- not need to be in caps):
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- WD8003 IRQ=10 IOBASE=300 RAMBASE=D800 8-BIT
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- ARTISOFT, Inc. makes no warranty as to the completeness or
- accuracy of this document. LANtastic is a registered trademark of
- ARTISOFT, Inc. Brand names and product names are trademarks or
- registered trademarks of their respective companies.