Re: Parallel Port CD problems w/ 701C

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

At 9:56 AM 5/26/96, Steve Hultquist wrote:

>Make sure you upgrade the bios on your 701. The original versions
>(multiple!) of the bios had bugs in its parallel port support. We've been
>able to get parallel port CD ROMs to work *MOST OF THE TIME*. There are
>still occational vagaries, however.

        If it were me, I'm not so sure I'd be keen on upgrading.  I think
there are too many 701 owners on this list that did that and ended up
having all sorts of weird, unidentifiable problems.  In many cases those
same people found a way to backpedal to a previous BIOS version (I think
"N") and the problems disappeared.  Meanwhile, for those of us who never
upgraded beyond "N", we never had those odd problems to begin with...


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