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IBM-AUSTRIA - PC-HW-Support 30 Aug 1999 |
IEEE adapter incompatibility / fast VP
PROBLEM - An incompatibility may occur if an adapter card which was designed to run at
the slower IEEE specification is installed in some Valuepoint machines. The IBM at bus
timing specification allows adapters designed to this at spec to run with enhanced
performance over those designed to the IEEE spec. Failures such as failure to recognize
device, system hangs, diagnostic errors may be seen by the user.
Machines AFFECTED - All 6382/S, 6384/D, and 6387/T's with adapters designed to the
IEEE bus timing specification.
SOLUTION - A new riser card is available from IBM to fix this problem. the riser card
FRU part numbers are:
- 82G3507 (3x3 system)
- 82G3509 (5x5 system)
- 82G3511 (8x6 system)
Additional Information - known adapters that may exhibit this bus timing problem are
as follows:
- Future Domain 16 bit SCSI adapter
- IBM Ethernet adapters (option part numbers 48G7169, 60G0615, and 60G0605)
- Action Media video adapter
In the case of the Future Domain 16 bit SCSI adapter, a new 16 bit adapter will be
introduced by Future Domain in november 93 that will also fix this problem.
More INFORMATION / HELP is available at the IBM-HelpCenter
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