ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º º º Classic Above Board Miscellaneous Add-in Board Compatibility: A-H º º º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ CANNON SCANNER INTERFACE BOARD We have customer reports of compatibility between this scanner board and current Above Boards as well as the Matched Memory classic. We also have reports that the discontinued Above Board 286 and PS/286 work fine with this scanner board. Tech Note: If there appears to be a memory address problem, have the customer try a different I/O port address. The only conflicts we've seen with this board have come from I/O port address conflicts. COPYII PC DELUXE BY CENTRAL POINT *CUSTOMER REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards and Matched Memory Classic. Tech Notes: Default I/O port address for the CopyII PC Deluxe board conflicts with Above Boards. Jumpers for Deluxe: J6 has two jumpers: LEFT RIGHT I/O ADDRESS ---- ----- ----------- UP UP 268h-26Fh default DOWN DOWN 3E8h-3EFh UP DOWN 368h-36Fh DOWN UP 2E8h-2EFh J7 controls DMA port: UP = channel 1 default DOWN = channel 3 CORDATA LASER PRINTER INTERFACE BOARD We have customer reports of compatibility between the Cordata Laser Printer board and current Above Boards, (as well as the Matched Memory Classic), under the following conditions: If the customer wants only extended memory, conventional memory, or a combination of the two there will be no conflicts whatsoever. If the customer wants expanded memory in an 80286-based computer, there won't be enough room in reserved memory for the EMS driver, the Cordata ROM, and an EGA or VGA ROM. IF the customer is using a true Monochrome board (not Monochrome VGA) or CGA board there will be no problems. The combination of an EGA or VGA board and the Cordata board use all available memory locations and an EMS driver will not have room to load if they are present. Cordata Memory Address starts at D0000 and ends at DFFFF, this address cannot be changed. Cordata confirmed this information. Their number in the United States is ph: (805) 499-0536 EXPANZ! Disk compression product, a half-length AT-bus board that contains an ASYC with a disk compression algorithm. The algorithm works like PKZip; however, it appears to be a more efficient algorithm. This product uses a 16K reserved page frame. The board can be set to the following addresses: CC00 (default) DC00 EC00 C800 D800 E800 C000 D400 E400 D000 E000 If the customer is on a system that permits access to the E000 range (XTs), set the "Expanz!" board to a 16K boundary in this range. If the user is on a system that does not decode E000 (ATs), then EMM will require a page frame parameter. HPIB INTERFACE - HEWLETT PACKARD We have customer reports of compatibility between the HPIB Interface card and current Above Boards as well as with the Matched Memory Classic. The HPIB interface board uses more than 16K of memory address space in the range CC000 through DC000. If setting up the Intel memory board to provide expanded memory, set the HPIB switches for starting address DC000, and the expanded memory manager to start at CC000. ALL-CHARGE BOARD *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with with current Above Boards, also with the discontinued AB 286 and AB PS/286. AWESOME I/O *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards, although there could be an issue if trying to get the Above Board to supply expanded memory in a system with this card. The Awesome I/O is a 1mg static ram cache memory board. It uses 64k of reserved memory from D0000-DFFFFh. In an 80286-based computer there won't be enough reserved memory address space to provide expanded memory if there is an EGA/VGA adapter also installed, (or some other adapter requiring reserved memory, such as a network card). ATRON HARDWARE DEBUGGING BOARD *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards, although there could be an issue if trying to set up the Above Board to provide expanded memory in a system with this card. The Atron Hardware Debugging Board uses reserved Memory Addresses: Hex C0000 through E0000 or 80000 through A0000. If the Atron board is using Hex C0000 through E0000 there won't be enough reserved memory address space for the Above Board's Expanded Memory Manager to load. The Atron card would need to be set to use the 80000 starting address to be used with expanded memory, but this address would limit the computer's conventional memory to 512k. DIO MULTI I/O BOARD *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards. This Multi I/O board has 1 parallel and 1 serial port with an option to add a second serial port. Switches configure the ports. Factory setting is: existing serial port = com1 optional second serial port = com2. Must disable the second serial port on the I/O board if setting an Above Board port as com2, (on Above Boards that are shipped with serial and parallel ports). DSI - 20 COPROCESSOR BOARD *CUSTOMER REPORT* of compatibility with current Above Boards and Matched Memory Classic. This is a 68020 coprocessor board for the AT. (16-bit board) Tech Note: Memory address: D0000 (cannot be changed) FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SECURITY BOARD *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with Above Boards. The FMS board uses a small amount of reserved memory, default starting address is D800. This can be changed with switches on their board. Financial Management Systems phone ph: (206) 646-8686. GAME PORT/JOYSTICK CONTROLLER & AB PLUS *FIELD REPORTS* of compatibility with a wide range of Game Port/Joystick controller cards. Tech Note:A game port may fail with an AB+ set to I/O address 208. Change the I/O address to any other value. 208 will not conflict on an AB286 or earlier AB's. HP SCANJET DESKTOP SCANNER The interface board for HP's scanner will allow the choice of two I/O ports and one of eight 16Kb pages. This flexibility should allow it to work with ABs and many other devices. There are four switches on the HP board; settings are shown below. An asterisk (*) indicates factory default settings. 'x' means DON'T CARE. Note: The switch settings chart in the manual is confusing gets interpreted backwards. The chart below represents the physical setting of each DIP switch on the HP Scanjet board. sw1 sw2 sw3 sw4 * up x x x I/O Port 278-27Fh dn x x x I/O Port 268-26Fh x up up up C000 Page Frame Used * x dn up up C400 " " " x up dn up C800 " " " x dn dn up CC00 " " " x up up dn D000 " " " x dn up dn D400 " " " x up dn dn D800 " " " x dn dn dn DC00 " " " NOTE: If the user has LPT2: enabled, there will be a conflict with the default I/O address. If it is moved to 268h it will conflict with the default setting of the Above Board, so it may be necessary to remove the Scanner interface long enough to run SETBOARD. The default page frame should not cause a conflict with the Above Board default EMM, but may conflict with other boards in their system. ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ End of file Intel FaxBack # 1438 August 26,1992