[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference noted::etherworks

Title:EtherWORKS Notes Conference
Notice:WWW server at http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/adapters/
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Wed Sep 01 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1318
Total number of notes:5673

1252.0. "DE205 in EISA mode, what exactly does it do and how" by BSS::F_BLANDO (Je suis grand, beau, et fort!) Mon Jan 27 1997 13:55

I am working with a customer, and I am getting very confused on what exactly is
the DE205 EISA mode.  We are using NT 3.51 on an AlphaServer 1000.

- What is it, I mean the card is ISA, and I read that there is no performance
gain in EISA mode
- The DEC2050.CFG ECU does not work.  The ECU wants it named @@@0000.CFG, but
then when the machine reboots it complains of ID mismatch (ECU V1.9).

What am I missing?

				Frank Blando
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
1252.1Leave it in ISA modeNETCAD::HILLERMon Jan 27 1997 15:407
    The DE203/4/5 can be configured to basically look like an EISA card.
    However, this functionality is not supported by most of the drivers. (I
    know for a fact the the NT driver doesn't support EISA mode.) You're
    correct in that EISA mode does not buy you any performance advantage.
    
    -Brent