Trixter
Veteran Member
I've been doing some restoration work with my 6300s and thought I'd define a list of oddities and issues I've seen over the years. These are valid for any of the four systems in the title of this thread, as they are all the same system, but I'll refer to them . In no particular order:
If you replace the 8086 with an NEC V30:
The embedded floppy controller is not 100% NEC765 compatible. As a result, some low-level floppy tools such as ImageDisk, Teledisk, and others fail.
If anyone else knows of any, please comment on this thread.
If you replace the 8086 with an NEC V30:
- Geoworks Ensemble fails to load. Likely due to a faulty detection routine, but nobody has debugged it and come up with a patch.
- The AT&T Enhanced Memory Expansion Board (a version of the AST Rampage AT board modified for the M24's 16-bit bus) will not work. The driver loads, but then hangs. This might be due to timing issues in the driver. Subsequent REMM.SYS drivers were attempted but all fail to interact with the board.
- You cannot use an Intel Etherexpress 8/16 series NIC in an M24. While that NIC is capable of memory-mapped transfers, it only performs them on AT-class hardware. Without memory-mapped transfers, it falls back to 16-bit port I/O, which fails on M24 systems as previously noted.
The embedded floppy controller is not 100% NEC765 compatible. As a result, some low-level floppy tools such as ImageDisk, Teledisk, and others fail.
If anyone else knows of any, please comment on this thread.
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