Can you tell us what the controller does (disk or what?) and who it is made
by?  Or can you tell us what large chips are on it?

> For my sins, I repair hardware for a (meagre) living, and my main
> instrument is a pinpoint machine which has an industrial pc card running
> specialised software and driving a set of ISA cards (I have one
> controller card, 3 driver boards, and a Scanner card on the isa bus.
> Apparently they are on the bus from 0x0300 up. The software has a file
> somewhere telling it what's there, and it searches for them. Apparently
> it is not finding the controller card.

What tells you that?  What are your symptoms?

> These cards are non-pnp, and do not identify readily. The machine is
> tailing edge technology from 1999, but at what it does it's the tops.
> Now the controller card seems to have sat down, I can't find a hardware
> fault in it. Neither can I afford a replacement. A sad fact.
>
> Is there any utility I can interrogate the bus to find if these cards
> are there? Isapnp or pnpdump just doesn't see them.

More detailed info please.  Some of us have collected a lot of older
hardware.

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