RE: Decision Data ES/PCI Twinax card and Windows 98SE

I can only speak in respect to the Ideacomm product.
THere are multiple card types dating back quite a few years.The earlier cards 
were dependent on established IRQ
settings on the pc, and did not function on many W95 and up machines.
THeir later P&P versions worked well, and I'm still using several.
Tech support is diffgicult, since Ideacomm was bought by Nylnx, and then by 
Decision Data.
Your best bet here is to go with another large vendor.
If you don't believe me, by all means call or e-mail their tech support people, 
and see what happens.
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Palmer [mailto:neilp@dpslink.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:44 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Decision Data ES/PCI Twinax card and Windows 98SE


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Not according to their web site:  http://www.nlynx.com/html/espci.htm

...Neil





"Shields, Ken" <kenshields@ppg.com>



        To:     "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
        cc:
        Subject:        RE: Decision Data ES/PCI Twinax card and Windows 98SE


Many of the older Decision data, Ideacomm emulation cards made wide use of
assigning fixed IRQ's.
This problem disappeared with the P&P versions, which were not hardware
dependent.
Found the older cards gave big problems with W95 and up....
Could this be the problem?
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Palmer [mailto:neilp@dpslink.com]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:22 AM

No - it's a small shop with an AS/400 model 200.  Twinax directly attached
to WSC block on 400.

...Neil


Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>

Hello Neil,
is this card connected directly to the AS/400 twinax controller or through
any other means ? Is this perhaps the problem with the new models of
twinax-controllers running 2 Mbit "double mode" instead of the old speed
(1 MBit). (You know, where  the data area has to be filled to reduce
the speed of the twinax-controllers to the old standards ...)

Regards from Germany, Philipp Rusch

Neil Palmer schrieb:

> Anyone have any success with the above combination ?
> Have a customer (who installed this and actually got a signon display
for
> a few seconds, then the session crashed.
> They replaced the card, same problem.
> The PC is a Dell Optiplex GX150, PIII 1GHz, 256 SDRAM, running Windows
> 98SE.
>
> ...Neil



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