From: utzoo!decvax!cca!mwm@Okc-Unix@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: ithaca stuff.. Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3002 Posted: Mon Aug 30 13:18:08 1982 Received: Wed Sep 8 03:20:59 1982 From: Mike MeyerThis problem is not something that can be patched in the BIOS. Here is what is going on: Normally, all goes well & I can boot the caching BIOS with typeahead Sometimes, that BIOS won't boot. Everything else does: the caching BIOS without typeahead, the non-caching BIOS with typeahead, and the normal BIOS I open the box, push in the USARTS on the I/O card, and all will be well again (for a while). It will flake out the same way later. I haven't found a solution (if somebody out there has one, let me know!), but I haven't been looking to hard - I spend most of my time doing things where I don't want caching (they do exist!), or I don't want typeahead. This is the ONLY problem I've had with their stuff in over 2 years of work on this machine, and casual use of about 30 others. The only other major problem I've seen with Ithaca h'ware was a flakey power supply in a beta test site of their z8000 system. They eventually flew somebody out to look at that. mike