SDLC ISA Adapter
ITEM: RS4000014704
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Question:
a customer ordered the 4-Port Multiprotocol adapter for ISA bus
(#2701)
He received an adapter with a label on it:
Multiport/2 1MB (Sounded to me as adapter #7004)
I have not been able to get the adapter available, when configuring
it I get an error message: device error - unable to configure
parent device.
I supposed the adapter was the wrong one and ordered a new one,
again customer received the same adapter. At this point I'm no longer
sure that it's not the correct one.
Can you help me identify the adapter? Is it correct that the
4-Port Multiprotocol adapter has that strange label on is?
By the way, in AIX4.1.4 CD-ROM I've not been able to find the
device driver for device.isa.8f70 (equivalent of device.mca.8f70).
I could only find device.isa.mm2, this of course increased my
doubt˘˘˘
Please, I need urgently to find out if my customer has the right
adapter and if yes, what problem can I have in configuring it.
Thank you very much in advance, best regards, Marina.
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According to information in
http://dr_zook.mtlisc.can.ibm.com/wwwdocs/RSINFO/4portISA.html,
card #2701 will have a part numbers 33F8967, 84F7540,
and/or 53F2662. One or more of these numbers should be visible
on the card. The WWW page also says 'devices.isa.mm2' is the
correct device driver s/w. It also has a DIP switch settings
chart. The settings for the first adapter are:
DIP Switch # 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
off on on on on off off on off on
There is no such thing as 'devices.isa.8f70'. The 8f70
is an identifier which is used by microchannel only.
My sources suggest doing the following:
1) remove s/w 'devices.mca.8f70'
installp -r 'devices.mca.8f70*'
There is known problem with having this code on an ISA machine
2) install s/w 'devices.isa.mm2' at latest PTF level
U442898 & U443408 for AIX V4.1.4
U442401 & U442142 for AIX V4.1.5
U446062 for AIX V4.2
3) power off AIX machine
4) check switch settings
5) verify card is in an ISA slot, not a PCI slot
6) power on AIX machine
You may also want to run the onboard diagnostics to see if
they can detect the card.
If the customer's machine is an E30 or F30 and the line is
is switched (dial-up) then they may need IX61516/IX62664 also.
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