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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:40:54 -0800
From: Mark Smith <msmith@3-cities.com>
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Organization: Lost Somewhere in Time
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Subject: Re: Iomega Tape 250 timeouts on ASUS on-board fdc0
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> Mark Smith <msmith@3-cities.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Can you try a different (external) floppy controller?  The UMC8669F on
> > > the P55T2P4 is known to be not bug-compatible with the NE765.  While
> 
> Dunno.  Have a look there what chip they're using now.

That would be their "super mulit i/o" chip?  let me take a look.

The chip is a Winbond chip.  I didn't get the exact number off of
it but it's NOT the UMC chip.  It's the UMC chip that's flaky,
right?

Thanks

Mark