[Info-vax] DE500 to DE500 woes

[Steven Schweda]

On Nov 27, 5:01 pm, urbancamo <m... at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks very much for suggesting the DE600 - that was going to be my next course of research, to see what DEC/Compaq/HP PCI cards out there that support OpenVMS/tru64 I could substitute with.

   Rather than look for an actual DEC/Compaq/HP DE60x-xx, I'd
look for any cheap-and-nasty card with a compatible-looking
Intel chip on it.  Whether the firmware on any of these
systems knows as much about an EI as it does about an EW is
another question.  As I recall, I always used DE500-BA cards
in my AlpSta 200 4/233 systems, so I know nothing of the
Intel-chip cards in very old systems.

   Back before I went all gigabit in my XP1000 systems, I had
some kind of Compaq-branded Intel-chip cards ($2.50 each at a
local junk store) in them.  Found one in the pile.  Card:
NC3121, chip: 82558B.  That's the (an?) Intel chip with the
"0x12298086" ID mentioned in SYS$SYSTEM:SYS$CONFIG.DAT.  (I
suspect that the DE602-xx card had two of the same chip.)