> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of Tony Duell
> Sent: 05 April 2003 00:50
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: IBM 5161
>
>
> > Reading some websites yesterday there was also a bug in early
> versions of
> > the BIOS that meant certain slots in the expander couldn't be used at
> > particular ROM addresses, which must've made installing new
> cards a fun task
> > if you didn't know that :)
>
> Impossible!... All the slots in the expansion unit are the same (they're
> bussed pin-pin). There is no way that some cards will work in some slots
> and not others.
Hm, that makes sense, so all I can assume is the site I was reading was
wrong, unless it's possible for cards not to work in the expansion *period*
because of this bug?
cheers
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Received on Mon Apr 07 2003 - 23:43:52 BST