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Article #37Re: probing hardware with OS/2?
From: Marian Alexie
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 00:00
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Georg Schwarz wrote: > > we have a scanner that, via some SCSI adaptor card that had come with > it, is connected to a PC running OS/2. Since the scanner software (for > Windows 3.1) is rather buggy we are considering moving the scanner to > another PC running Linux. > Unfortunately we no longer can get a hold of any scanner (and especially > SCSI card) docs. Is there any tool for OS/2 that can probe the hardware > and reports its characteristics (such as IRQs used, which memory > locations a card uses, whether it's memory or I/O based, etc.)? > Thanks. > -- > Georg Schwarz schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de > Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130 > Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/ Hi Georg, You can use OS/2 to probe your PC's devices. Go to an OS/2 window and type any one of the following lines,followed by an <Enter> key pressed : RMVIEW /DC RMVIEW /DC /IRQ RMVIEW For more info on using RMVIEW, in an OS/2 window type the line below, followed by an <Enter> key pressed : HELP RMVIEW Sincerely, Marian Alexie.
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