11 Feb
2006
11 Feb
'06
10:51 a.m.
the timing was different for use with the expansion chassis adapter
card. Probably to account for the associated delays times with extra
buffers that would have been required for the cable connect between
the two boxes.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
At 01:48 PM 2/11/2006, you wrote:
On 2/11/2006 at 2:24 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
I can only conclude that:
1. The IDE board is slightly awry
2. The right-most ISA slot is slightly awry
3. There is some technical limitation I'm not aware of
#1 and #2 are easy to accept, but not #3. Is there such a limitation?
Yes. The 8th card slot on the XT is "different" in its timings. Mostly
meant for certain specific cards; I've got a bunch of old documentation for
add-in cards that say they won't work in that slot. Offhand, I can't
recall which cards work there, but a guess might be a memory expansion
card.
Cheers,
Chuck