WD8013 & SCO UNIX

[Michael Squires]

I've just discovered that the WD8013 in my SCO UNIX (ODT 1.0, actually)
works well - when I don't use the graphics features of my VGA plasma
display.  Running an X display causes all non-X displays to vanish,
although the keyboard works (at least long enough to shut down the system).

It looks like the WD & the VGA board are conflicing, as SCO says they may
do in the release notes.  I've not tried changing parameters (yet); I was
using INT 2, IO 280, 16K RAM at D0000.

On the other hand, I used a WD8003EBT with an 8-bit Paradise clone under
XENIX 2.3.2 for quite a while (although never with X11).

A 3C501 works, but gives numerous errors in netstat -i and is known to have
serious problems with NFS mounts (there's a special entry in the release notes
about that, and I was warned by One Who Knows to stay away from that board in
systems intended for heavy use.

On using both a WD1007V and Adaptec controller in the same system - no
real news there, except it seems necessary to disable the Adaptec BIOS.
One respondent stated that a secondary HD controller had to have at least
one SCSI HD on it (this may be true, but SCO UNIX boots from the floopy 
with a SCSI tape at controller 0, LUN 2, and I can't imagine they'd do that
if it only worked with SCSI HD's).

Another user reports that he sold his Orchid Prodesigner VGA board after
failing to get it to operate properly with his hardware and SCO products.
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