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

I believe the all Ideacomm cards are off the market and no tech support is
available.  I beleive Ideacomm was near bankrupt when Nlynx acquired them.

BTW Nlynx bought Decision Data not the other way around but Nlynx markets
their stuff under the DD brand because, after all, who ever heard of Nlynx?

The Nlynx PCI card is actually made by Praim.  This is a good card that,
AFAIK, is not dependent on PC speed or IRQ issues.  In other words, it
should work.

There are only really three PCI twinax verdors left:  BOS, Praim, and Perle.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: Shields, Ken <kenshields@ppg.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:04 AM
Subject: 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
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> "Shields, Ken" <kenshields@ppg.com>
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>         To:     "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>         cc:
>         Subject:        RE: Decision Data ES/PCI Twinax card and Windows
98SE
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> 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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