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- From: jiliu@ucs.indiana.edu (Jian Liu)
- Subject: Two questions -- ethernet and scanner, second warmboot
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:19:57 GMT
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- Hi all. I am posting this for a friend. Your help is appreciated.
- Jian
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- This week I have experienced some troubles with Ethernet card installation.
- They took me quite a lot of times, yet they still remain unsolved. Thus, I
- would like to present my problems here for your review. If you have any
- ideas about those problems, please let me know.
- My first problem is to install an ethernet card together with a HP ScanJet
- at a NCR computer. The HP ScanJet uses a SCSI (or SCSI like) controler
- which uses IRQ 5 or 7, port 270 or 278, RAM address C0000 to DC000. If I
- install the scanner alone, I can only make it work at C4000 (Other
- locations may not work properly at this computer, even without an EtherNet
- card.) After I install the EtherNet, Scanner can't work properly. The
- scanning process would be halted after a while, or reboot the computer by
- itself. The EtherNet card's setting is 300, 2, CC000, which is not
- overlapped with Scanner's setting. Actually, the ethernet part works at
- this computer perfectedly with the scanner drive loaded. Maybe I should
- say that it is the scanner's campability problem with the Ethernet or its
- software. I used to think it was the memory's limited. But John gave me
- two more meg to add it up to 4 mg and the problem is still there. (This
- scanner's factory setting is C400, while it was installed with D400
- previously.)
- The second problem is to install an Ethernet card at an AT&T 6386 computer.
- I have tried many combinations at this computer. However, the settings at
- the ethernet cards either didn't work at all, or need to have warm boot
- after a cold boot in order to be connected to the server. And the
- connection is very unreliable. It keeps giving some messages like "parity
- failure on the extension board. Computer stopped," or "power-up
- unrecoverable error." It usually locked the computer completely or need a
- warm boot at least. I also changed a Ethernet card on it but it didn't
- work. For your reference, I used to have a 8 bit ethernet card at this
- computer, with a setting of 360, 10, d000. But this setting is typically
- unreliable as I described here.
- I have used SLEUTH to check the availability of IRQ and memory address. I
- didn't get any conflicting report from SLEUTH.
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- Jian Liu
- @Indiana University
-