On 1999-09-28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Dear Chad,
>As noted below, you do need the utility that comes with each
>EISA card to configure the card, and you also need to have a driver
>file for each EISA card, specialized for the particular OS that you
>are using. As the first followup to the question notes, Novell
>Netware EISA files are usually available, but I doubt that they will
>be available from the manufacturer, or anywhere else out there, for
>use with any sort of UNIX flavor. This is partly what caused EISA's
>demise.
Hmm, that's not good. This sever was running Netware, but I low level
formatted 3 of the drives, and fdisked the 4th to remove the "non-dos"
partition on it and then created a 2nd DOS partition on it. I don't see
anything that looks like EISA utilities or drivers on the original DOS
partition. I don't know a thing about Netware anyways. I just got a lot of
errors when it booted, probably because the network wasn't present.
>However, the great thing about EISA was that the slots were still
>ISA slots, too. If you use ISA cards, you'll be just fine, and don't
>need the additional driver software for EISA cards. You will
>probably need to do some fooling around in the BIOS Setup
>screens, to tell the system that there are no longer EISA devices in
>it, but you should be able to get the system to work, albeit without
>the speed advantages of the EISA bus.
I was thinking about installing an ISA card or two, but I would really like
to keep my EISA cards as well. Taking part of the covers off yesturday, I
see atleast one of the SCSI cards is an Adaptec, but I couldn't see any ID
on the second one from the angle I was looking at it. Adpatec, I would
imagine, will be the easiest manufacturer to find stuff for. Hopefully :-)
>We have a couple of systems here that we use as servers, with
>EISA busses and NetWare, and it is a bit of a pain to add/remove
>peripherals... but they've provided very good service between times,
>with hardly any work having to be done on them.
Workhorses they are :-)
>Hope this helps,
>Anthony J. Albert
Yes thank you Anthony. I wasn't sure how much response I was going to get
about EISA, as it didn't ever become popular with PCs. My new server will
basically be used as a big PC, by me. I wanted to mess around with another
OS, and anything thats says "Unisys" is hard for me to pass up as well :-)
>From the Unisys 386DX-33 of
Chad A. Fernandez in Battle Creek, MI USA
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