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help using GPIB and Ethernet board

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From: Dikran Kassabian
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 20:01
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I need some help.  I know very little about PCs and have a configuration 
problem.

At our installation we have a high tech color scanner from Optronics.  The
controller is a PC/AT that speaks to the scanner via GPIB, and to a user-
interface PC via GPIB.  In the UI PC we have both a GPIB board and an
ethernet board, and want to run PC NFS so that we can store the scanned images
on one of many networked SUNs where the image analysis will take place.

Here's the problem:  When drivers for both the GPIB and Ethernet board are
loaded, the Scanner software complains that it "..received fewer bytes than
expected..." and reports this immediately.  If we leave out the ethernet
driver from config.sys (but leave the board on the bus), everything works well.

As a workaround, the users need to boot without the ethernet driver, scan some
images, reboot with the ethernet driver and PC-NFS, and then transfer the 
files.  Very ugly, but it works.   We'd much rather have both PC-NFS and the
scanning software available all the time.

Can anyone offer suggestions?  Here are what I think are the relevant facts

			GPIB		Ethernet
			-----------	----------
Base I/O address	100		350
DMA Channel		5		1
Interrupt Level		3		5

We have tried other combinations, with no success.

Any ideas/help appreciated.  Please email.
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Subject: help using GPIB and Ethernet board
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Date: 25 Jan 91 20:01:48 GMT
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