6310 motherboards (was: 6300 parts)
Dave Levenson
dave at westmark.WESTMARK.COM
Sun Sep 23 15:00:19 AEST 1990
In article <14001 at hydra.gatech.EDU>, jkg at prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee) writes:
> In article <5510 at kd4nc.UUCP> cld at kd4nc.UUCP (Charles D'Englere) writes:
> >A local company has some 6310 and 6300 Plus boards and if memory
> >serves me they want $50.00 with a 30 day warranty.
...
I strongly suggest that you get a copy of AT&T's Hardware Reference
Manual for the 6310, comcode 105293534. This is available from
their Customer Information Center, 800-432-6600 and they take
credit-card orders over the phone. This book has schematics, and
pin-outs for the connectors, and definitions for the jumpers.
The 6310 is an AT-compatible version of the 6300PLUS. It was
designed to work with AT-style hard/floppy disk controllers such as
the Western Digital WD1003WA2, which won't fit into the buss
expansion board in the 6300 or the PLUS. (The 6310 comes with
AT-compatible 16-bit slots.)
> From the software side, I'd be interested in knowing if the same UNIX that
> runs on the 6300+ would run on the 6310 as well. Any and all help would be
> greatly appreciated. If someone can advise me on where to get documentation
> or technical specs for this thing (particularly jumper settings), that would
> be great. Thanks.
No, that UNIX only works on the PLUS. One reason is that it
requires that the upper 384 kbytes of ram be addressed at the top of
the 16-Mbyte address space of the 80286. That's where it is on the
PLUS. The 6310 is AT-compatible, so the upper 384 kbytes of its
first megabyte are located at 1 Mbyte.
The 6310 will support Microport V/AT, and AT-compatible XENIX, as
well as OS/2 and good old MS-DOS.
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