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From: Dan.Dimick@f8.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Dimick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SnapIn 386: Should this work?
Message-ID: <746192174.AA02593@therose.pdx.com>
Date: 23 Aug 93 19:21:50 GMT
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X-FTN-To: Perry Hutchison
PH> From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
PH> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
PH> Organization: Surely you jest
PH> I have an Intel SnapIn 386** installed in an old IBM PC-AT with 640K+3M,
PH> 1.2 and 360 floppies properly configured in CMOS, and at the moment a
PH> pair of MFM hard drives (which I'm planning to replace with an ESDI).
PH> Can anyone think of a reason why 386bsd should not at least boot on it?
PH> It will clearly not be a terribly fast system, but so far, I have not
PH> been able to find a 386bsd boot floppy which will work on it at all.
PH> I usually get the floppy-light-stays-on problem which others report
PH> having solved by bouncing on numlock. (I've tried that, too.)
PH> ** For those who may not be familiar with it, the SnapIn 386 is a small
PH> assembly which contains a 386SX-20 with 16Kb cache. It plugs into
PH> the AT motherboard in place of the 286 processor chip, thereby
PH> upgrading the machine to a 386SX. I have the cache disabled.
Do you have a 287 math cooprocessor installed? Without the dos driver
you have no cache avaialable, However you do have the straight 386. Intel
upgraded the 287"L" if I remeber right with a 287 that would support the
386 command set. Without the upgraded 287 your Snapin is limited on it
support.
Dan