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Re: Promise EIDE2300 VL I/O card

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <483546227wnr@nbarker.demon.co.uk>, Neil Barker
<Neil@nbarker.demon.co.uk> writes

>Having just bought a Promise EIDE2300 Vl-Bus card, I am now experiencing 
>Comm Overruns with my BT Prologue V34EX modem.
>
>From what someone has said in demon.tech.modems, it seems that this may 
>be being caused by the onboard BIOS on the card.

That's a common experience, yes.


>Anyone had any experience with this sort of thing and ways to get 
>around it ?

Disable the bios on the card so that the one on the motherboard gets
used while you are doing comms.


>Anyone know how to contact Promise via the Internet ?

www.promise.com I believe.


Cheers, J/.
-- 
John Beardmore
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