11 Oct
2001
11 Oct
'01
12:22 p.m.
It is slightly off topic, though I hadn't seen an eisa card for what
seems like a decade :)
In any case, I recently got a 2nd hand AlphaServer 1000A with no disks.
I put an EISA SCSI card I dug up in the machine, but its wanting me to
run the eisa configuration utility. After scouring the net, I found one
that would come up, but only if I burned it onto a CD. Now its
complaining that It can't find a configuration file for my system board.
Grrr. I suppose I'm glad EISA is dead, but...it would be nice if I
could get this silly SCSI card to work.
Any thoughts/hints/suggestions?
Brian Wheeler
bdwheele(a)indiana.edu
11 Oct
11 Oct
7:11 p.m.
I think I can help a bit. When you make your EISA config floppy disk,
you need to lable it correctly. My Unisys 486 EISA based server needs
the disk labled "systemcfg".
Your motherboard probably needs a config file, just like a card does.
I'm not sure it is a *.cfg file, However. It might be an "ovl" file. I
have no idea what the ovl files do, they aren't asci text. I'd try a
google search.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Brian Wheeler wrote:
It is slightly off topic, though I hadn't seen an eisa card for what
seems like a decade :)
In any case, I recently got a 2nd hand AlphaServer 1000A with no disks.
I put an EISA SCSI card I dug up in the machine, but its wanting me to
run the eisa configuration utility. After scouring the net, I found one
that would come up, but only if I burned it onto a CD. Now its
complaining that It can't find a configuration file for my system board.
Grrr. I suppose I'm glad EISA is dead, but...it would be nice if I
could get this silly SCSI card to work.
Any thoughts/hints/suggestions?
Brian Wheeler
bdwheele(a)indiana.edu
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