• H124544 IBM ES MC32 ADAPTER IN UTP ENVIRONMENT HAVING LOW THROUGHPUT

    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to SteffenU on Mon Jan 6 21:40:47 2025
    1.4.202 IBM ES MC32 ADAPTER IN UTP ENVIRONMENT HAVING LOW THROUGHPUT

    Record number: H124544

    Device: D/T8550
    Model: MLAN
    Tip key:
    Date created: O94/11/03
    Date last altered: A94/11/03

    SYMPTOM: This tip provides information concerning customers when
    the IBM EtherStreamer MC 32 Adapter (FRU 74G0865, P/N 74G0851)
    configured in a half duplex, UTP environment may be expericing
    Low Throughput.

    PROBLEM ISOLATION AIDS: Condition requires Adapter replacement.
    In order to apply for a replacement adapter, the customer should
    call the 1 - 800-IBM-SERV number for IBM Service, and after proper
    account valadation, should ask the Level-1 service to send the
    problem to the Networking Environment Support Team (Level-2) Que
    in Resaerch Triangle Park, NC.

    Level-1 must be certain to include the customer's direct dial
    telephone number in the Retain problem record. Level-2 will then
    contact the customer directly, and arrange to ship prepaid, a
    replacement EtherStreamer MC 32 Adapter to the customer, with
    instructions on how to return the defective adapter to IBM.

    FIX: The solution for this situation requires replacing the ES
    MC 32 Adapter.

    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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