Help setting up a SBS/Bit3 PCI-to-VMEBus cards

[Ram Meenakshisundaram]

This chassis once held a FORCE SPARC VME controller.  It has long since been
removed
by the previous owner.  Hence, those terminators are probably from that
board....


Thanks,

Ram

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ram Meenakshisundaram [mailto:RMeenaks at OLF.COM] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:28 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
> Cc: cfandt at netsync.net
> Subject: RE: Help setting up a SBS/Bit3 PCI-to-VMEBus cards
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I was able to get the drivers from SBS.  They have the 
> manuals, etc online and anyone can download them.  Better 
> than other companies where it is a pain to get them.  Since I 
> am quite a newbie when it comes to VME, I am not sure if I 
> installed everything correctly.  I got the chassis hooked up 
> and everything and the showrevs utility does seem to pick up 
> both the PCI and VMEBus cards.  I really want to get this 
> working under Linux, but I want the windows version up and 
> running first.  Here is what I have so far:
> 
> 1) A VME Chassis with the SBS board connected to slot #0 
> (System controller)
> 
> 2) Several transputer VME slave boards on the other slots. I 
> want just the 1st transputer board to be recognized by the 
> VME bus while the others are there just for power and J2 
> connections.  
> 
> 3) The drivers I have for the transputer boards are UNIX 
> source files which I need to convert over to Windows XP/SBS 
> style.  I could surely use some help here (any software that 
> illustrates how to communicate when be helpful).
> 
> 4) There seems to be terminators? on both the J1 and J2 on 
> slot #0.  What are they used for?  Should I remove them?  
> They are on the back of the VME Chassis.
> 
> 5) This is a VERO chassis (if that has any relevance).  
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> 
> Ram
>