• IBM MCA Etherstreamer32 in my PS/2 P70

    From SteffenU@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 6 00:07:23 2025
    Hi,

    I dug out my old P70, it booted right up. Of course, Floppy is dead, a
    proper fix is underway. In the meantime, I hooked up an 2.88 MB Floppy
    which worked.

    Now I want to show my p70 the Internet, and I bought an Etherstreamer32
    Card. Using the P70 reference disk, I could copy the Etherstreamer32 ADF
    etc. files to to the P70 reference disk. Unfortunately, once I installed
    the card and powered the system on, the hard drive spins up, but the
    screen stays off. Pressing ESC Ctrl Break etc. also do not help.
    Booting with a Floppy also doesn't work, same symptoms. I examined the
    board, I cannot see any damages.

    Anybody got an idea to get the network card running?

    Cheers/2
    Steffen
    and soon OS/2 Warp will be on the machine...

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Jan 5 18:30:46 2025
    Oh, what is the ES32's FRU or P/N?

    Try turning off streaming, if it was enabled.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    Might be the P70's refdisk needs to be updated to the latest SC.EXE? Downlevel SC.EXE might not be able to successfully configure the later
    ES32.

    Reference Disk v1.04 + XGAOPT (11 Jun 1993, 1.44 MB) https://www.ardent-tool.com/disks/rfp70x.zip

    File inside ZIP is a WinImage *.IMA, very dependable utility.

    SteffenU wrote:
    Hi,

    I dug out my old P70, it booted right up. Of course, Floppy is dead, a
    proper fix is underway. In the meantime, I hooked up an 2.88 MB Floppy
    which worked.

    Now I want to show my p70 the Internet, and I bought an
    Etherstreamer32 Card. Using the P70 reference disk, I could copy the
    Etherstreamer32 ADF etc. files to to the P70 reference disk.
    Unfortunately, once I installed the card and powered the system on,
    the hard drive spins up, but the screen stays off. Pressing ESC Ctrl
    Break etc. also do not help. Booting with a Floppy also doesn't work,
    same symptoms. I examined the board, I cannot see any damages.

    Anybody got an idea to get the network card running?

    Cheers/2
    Steffen
    and soon OS/2 Warp will be on the machine...


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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to SteffenU on Sun Jan 5 18:23:47 2025
    Might be the P70's refdisk needs to be updated to the latest SC.EXE?
    Downlevel SC.EXE might not be able to successfully configure the later ES32.

    Reference Disk v1.04 + XGAOPT (11 Jun 1993, 1.44 MB) https://www.ardent-tool.com/disks/rfp70x.zip

    File inside ZIP is a WinImage *.IMA, very dependable utility.

    SteffenU wrote:
    Hi,

    I dug out my old P70, it booted right up. Of course, Floppy is dead, a
    proper fix is underway. In the meantime, I hooked up an 2.88 MB Floppy
    which worked.

    Now I want to show my p70 the Internet, and I bought an Etherstreamer32
    Card. Using the P70 reference disk, I could copy the Etherstreamer32 ADF
    etc. files to to the P70 reference disk. Unfortunately, once I installed
    the card and powered the system on, the hard drive spins up, but the
    screen stays off. Pressing ESC Ctrl Break etc. also do not help. Booting
    with a Floppy also doesn't work, same symptoms. I examined the board, I cannot see any damages.

    Anybody got an idea to get the network card running?

    Cheers/2
    Steffen
    and soon OS/2 Warp will be on the machine...


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  • From SteffenU@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Mon Jan 6 19:02:45 2025
    Hi,

    the FRU is 74G0865, it's the upper one of Aredent's page: https://www.ardent-tool.com/NIC/ES32.html

    and I will try the updated RefDisk.

    Thank you very much for your quick reply.

    And of course there will be more questions, different topic, therefore different thread.

    Cheers Steffen/2


    On 06.01.2025 01:30, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Oh, what is the ES32's FRU or P/N?

    Try turning off streaming, if it was enabled.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    Might be the P70's refdisk needs to be updated to the latest SC.EXE?
    Downlevel SC.EXE might not be able to successfully configure the later
    ES32.

    Reference Disk v1.04 + XGAOPT (11 Jun 1993, 1.44 MB)
    https://www.ardent-tool.com/disks/rfp70x.zip

    File inside ZIP is a WinImage *.IMA, very dependable utility.

    SteffenU wrote:
    Hi,

    I dug out my old P70, it booted right up. Of course, Floppy is dead,
    a proper fix is underway. In the meantime, I hooked up an 2.88 MB
    Floppy which worked.

    Now I want to show my p70 the Internet, and I bought an
    Etherstreamer32 Card. Using the P70 reference disk, I could copy the
    Etherstreamer32 ADF etc. files to to the P70 reference disk.
    Unfortunately, once I installed the card and powered the system on,
    the hard drive spins up, but the screen stays off. Pressing ESC Ctrl
    Break etc. also do not help. Booting with a Floppy also doesn't work,
    same symptoms. I examined the board, I cannot see any damages.

    Anybody got an idea to get the network card running?

    Cheers/2
    Steffen
    and soon OS/2 Warp will be on the machine...


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  • From SteffenU@21:1/5 to SteffenU on Mon Jan 6 23:45:06 2025
    I created the RefDisk from ardent. Booted from it, did an automatic configuration. Then I copied the Etherstreamer32 file (yes, not the Dual Version) onto the RefDisk. Did another autoconfiguration. But same
    status, blank screen, only initial hard drive activity, no inital access
    to floppy drive.
    Here is an excerpt from the system information of the SC program, maybe
    that helps.
    ===
    Display Revision Levels:
    BIOS Part Number 65X1566
    Date 01/18/89

    Model F8
    Submodel B
    Revision Level 0

    Diagnostic Level 1.04

    ===
    Memory Map
    0C0000H

    Memory not being used
    Size = 128KB

    0E0000H

    ===
    Configuration Data for Integrated Fixed Disk and Controller
    DMA Arbitration Level Level 5
    DMA Burst Pacing Interval 24 Microseconds
    Fairness On/Off On
    Primary/Alternate Port Addresses Primary



    How would I turn off streaming? I could not find a spot where to change it?

    On 06.01.2025 19:02, SteffenU wrote:

    Hi,

    the FRU is 74G0865, it's the upper one of Aredent's page: https://www.ardent-tool.com/NIC/ES32.html

    and I will try the updated RefDisk.

    Thank you very much for your quick reply.

    And of course there will be more questions, different topic, therefore different thread.

    Cheers Steffen/2


    On 06.01.2025 01:30, Louis Ohland wrote:
    Oh, what is the ES32's FRU or P/N?

    Try turning off streaming, if it was enabled.

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    Might be the P70's refdisk needs to be updated to the latest SC.EXE?
    Downlevel SC.EXE might not be able to successfully configure the
    later ES32.

    Reference Disk v1.04 + XGAOPT (11 Jun 1993, 1.44 MB)
    https://www.ardent-tool.com/disks/rfp70x.zip

    File inside ZIP is a WinImage *.IMA, very dependable utility.

    SteffenU wrote:
    Hi,

    I dug out my old P70, it booted right up. Of course, Floppy is dead,
    a proper fix is underway. In the meantime, I hooked up an 2.88 MB
    Floppy which worked.

    Now I want to show my p70 the Internet, and I bought an
    Etherstreamer32 Card. Using the P70 reference disk, I could copy the
    Etherstreamer32 ADF etc. files to to the P70 reference disk.
    Unfortunately, once I installed the card and powered the system on,
    the hard drive spins up, but the screen stays off. Pressing ESC Ctrl
    Break etc. also do not help. Booting with a Floppy also doesn't
    work, same symptoms. I examined the board, I cannot see any damages.

    Anybody got an idea to get the network card running?

    Cheers/2
    Steffen
    and soon OS/2 Warp will be on the machine...



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