On-Topic -ish? MCA and OS/2 questions...

[Chad Fernandez]

John,

I did a quick Google search of comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware and came up 
with the folowing..... looks like it's an irq conflict if you/ve got an 
IBM scsi card.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware/browse_thread/thread/462f58f9415ba787/fe038423ee8d258d?q=8570+esdi+scsi&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3D8570+esdi+scsi%26Submit3%3DSearch+Groups%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#fe038423ee8d258d


Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

John Boffemmyer IV wrote:

> Looking at possibly tossing OS/2 on a PS/2 MCA machine I have (both over 
> 10 years, discontinued and of interest, at least to me). The machine is 
> a model 8570 with an add-on scsi card to an external enclosure with 4gb 
> of storage (various size drives) and a 2x scsi cd-rom. this mca machine 
> however, only has 1.44mb floppy support and a built in esdi 60mb hard 
> drive (system doesn't want to work with the scsi, even when the esdi 
> drive is removed). the system has 6-8mb ram (not currently sure, didn't 
> look last time it was booted) and a 386dx 20 with a 16/4 db9 token ring 
> nic and built in xga video. was thinking either os/2 warp of some 
> version or linux. any ideas or suggestions as beating away at it alone 
> seems to net me nothing much lately?
> -John Boffemmyer IV
> ps: i ended up getting that uSpeed Fast88 thingy an a digital 4mb 32/36 
> dram module when i got the lot of stuff from vax9000, if anyone has a 
> use for it, email me off list and it's yours as i have no idea what the 
> uSpeed thing is for and do not own any digital equipment. if you want, 
> i'll even include the 802.11b wireless pcmcia nic he put in the lot as 
> well. though, i don't have the external antennas for it.
> 
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