deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian) (01/26/91)
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.