Everex RAM 8000 (EV-178) - Configuration Utility ?

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Alexander Hofmann

Hi there.

I hope this is the right group - if not, please tell me.

I've just recently got hands on an Everex RAM 8000 board (EV-178).

I'm planning to use it in a Commodore PC40 system (AT-Compatible with an
Intel 286).

The only document I've found describing the board is located at
www.student.nada.kth.se/~d94-tan/pckort/ever8000.txt

I've managed to get the EMM.SYS driver mentioned in the above document,
but it won't find the board and hence refuses to load.

I could not, however, find the "EV178.EXE" configuration utility; as the
board's almost completely configured via an EEPROM and the utility, I
cannot even tell whether it's set to EMS or XMS, 8 or 16bit mode etc.

Does someone still have the config-disk and/or manual lying around?

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance

Alexander Hofmann
 
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Paul

Alexander said:
Hi there.

I hope this is the right group - if not, please tell me.

I've just recently got hands on an Everex RAM 8000 board (EV-178).

I'm planning to use it in a Commodore PC40 system (AT-Compatible with an
Intel 286).

The only document I've found describing the board is located at
www.student.nada.kth.se/~d94-tan/pckort/ever8000.txt

I've managed to get the EMM.SYS driver mentioned in the above document,
but it won't find the board and hence refuses to load.

I could not, however, find the "EV178.EXE" configuration utility; as the
board's almost completely configured via an EEPROM and the utility, I
cannot even tell whether it's set to EMS or XMS, 8 or 16bit mode etc.

Does someone still have the config-disk and/or manual lying around?

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance

Alexander Hofmann
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This is as close as I got. The download file itself is not archived,
because the link to it uses FTP protocol. And the archive.org project
doesn't do FTP.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961104093221/http://www.everex.com/supp/techlib/memmem.html

Half way down.

"DL-EV-178.EXE Software setup and Utilities
for the EV-178. 09-03-92 4,607 "

So all I can tell you, is the file is pretty small.

Paul
 
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Alexander Hofmann

Am 05.11.12 00:29, schrieb Paul:
This is as close as I got. The download file itself is not archived,
because the link to it uses FTP protocol. And the archive.org project
doesn't do FTP.

http://web.archive.org/web/19961104093221/http://www.everex.com/supp/techlib/memmem.html


Half way down.

"DL-EV-178.EXE Software setup and Utilities
for the EV-178. 09-03-92 4,607 "

So all I can tell you, is the file is pretty small.

Paul
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Hmmm, I've tried the archive bevore, but didn't find that. Either way
It's a start, thanks Paul.

You don't happen to know any FTP-Archives? I don't.
 
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Alexander Hofmann

Am 04.11.2012 21:35, schrieb Alexander Hofmann:
Hi there.

I hope this is the right group - if not, please tell me.

I've just recently got hands on an Everex RAM 8000 board (EV-178).

I'm planning to use it in a Commodore PC40 system (AT-Compatible with an
Intel 286).

The only document I've found describing the board is located at
www.student.nada.kth.se/~d94-tan/pckort/ever8000.txt

I've managed to get the EMM.SYS driver mentioned in the above document,
but it won't find the board and hence refuses to load.

I could not, however, find the "EV178.EXE" configuration utility; as the
board's almost completely configured via an EEPROM and the utility, I
cannot even tell whether it's set to EMS or XMS, 8 or 16bit mode etc.

Does someone still have the config-disk and/or manual lying around?

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance

Alexander Hofmann
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Although I still don't have the utility, I got the card to work.

Luckily it was configured to use all the available memory on the board
as XMS, otherwise I wouldn't have "found" it.

The card was configured to map the memory at physical addresses 4MB to
12MB. I figured this out using a small program utilizing the
LOADALL-instruction of the 80286 to access the whole 16MB address space
of the CPU and scan it for available memory.

After this, I soldered out the EEPROM, and found only 3 bytes different
from zero (out of 1024 in total) - one of them containing the number 4
in it's upper nibble - changing this to 1 made the card appear from 1MB
to 9MB.

It's also possible to set the total amount of memory installed on the
card, I don't know what the other 1022 bytes in the EEPROM are for, most
of them probably aren't used at all.

If there's interest in the EEPROM-Image etc. please let me know.
 
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