PSB No: S-0125A
Page: 6 of 7
FLOPPY DRIVES:
Q23.
A.
Q24.
A.
Q25.
A.
MEMORY:
Q26.
A.
Q27.
A.
What types of floppy disk drives will work on the Equity 386/25 PLUS?
The Equity 386/25 PLUS comes standard with a 5.25”, 1.2Mb floppy disk
drive. There is built-in BIOS support for industry standard 360Kb and
1.44Mb, 3.5” half-height floppy disk drives as well as the 720Kb, 3.5”
floppy drive. All four drive sizes are available from Epson.
Will the Equity 386/25 PLUS support 3 floppy disk drives?
No, not directly. The Epson controller and ROM BIOS supports a
maximum of two floppy drives.
Can the floppy disk controller be disabled?
No. The floppy disk controller is integrated in the system board and there
are no jumpers to enable or disable it. lf an additional or 3rd party board is
present the BIOS ROM auto-configure at bootup.
What type of RAM chips are used in the Equity 386/25 PLUS?
The Equity 386/25 PLUS utilities eight (8) D424256C-70 (256x4), 70 nSec
RAM chips plus panty on the
system board.
How do I increase
the memory of the Equity 386/25 PLUS?
The standard Equity 386/25 PLUS system includes 2Mb of on-board
memory. You can add SlMMs (single in-line
memory modules) to increase
on-board memory.
With
added SIMMs the total amount of
on-board
memory in the computer must be one of the following:
1 Mb, 2Mb, 3Mb,
4Mb, 6Mb, 8Mb, 9Mb, 10Mb, 12Mb or 16Mb.
SIMM configuration
can be found on page 5-17 in the Users’ Guide.
Memory can also be expanded through the use of third party memory boards
using an l/O slot Epson does not recommend a third-party memory board.
