EZPath DX32 control help needed, please!!

[VSMIGuy]

I guess I should have posted here instead of the other forum.

We have a 1996 bridgeport EZPath and the motherboard apparently died. We replaced with a passive backplane and single board computer. The computer will not recognize the BMDC card. The tech support people at the single board computer supplier say they need the IRQ and I/O address for the BMDC in order to get it to work. I have no idea where to get this. I did ultimately call EMI but they were not able to help. Does anyone have this information or know where I could get it??

Many thanks!

[NC Cams]

The BMDC card plugs into a traditional ISA slot in a conventional PC running DOS software. The system self loads when/if it runs its own setup software. On any of the BMDC systems I've worked with/reinstalled, never once did we set any interrupts - again, this is a DOS based system, not Windows.

I dare say that it may not want to run on Windows machines above Win 98 and especially NOT on XP based units. When someone is asking for interrupt info, it almost seems like they're trying to get it to run on Windows in some way/shape/form.

Due to the "take over" of the DOS system by the BMDC program, we did not find that the BMDC sofware played nicely with other software - the darn stuff wouldn't even run with DOSSHELL which we've multitasked out of repeatedly and run Win 3.11 sofware thru as well. Seems that you use it as a BMDC or else as a PC when you need to do PC file maintenance and not interactively, sorry.

The BMDC card is somewhat sensitive to the motherboard and operating system level. It supposedly ONLY runs on DOS 6 or 6.2 but we're running our Extrak'd BMDC machine in DOS 6.22.

I'd be leary of anything above Win 98 and wonder if it will run in 98 for that matter. The BMDC is based on OLD DOS software (and ONLY DOS) and it is NOT going to be all that compatable with "newer" operating systems which didn't even exist when this software was created.

The card does NOT like ultra fast PC's. Figure on Pentium 133mhz as the max. Unless your backplane and single poard PC are essentially a very basic ISA based PC clone, it may not work because it is too "new"/advanced technologically.

Basically, think 1996 technology and live in the past. This is a case where the latest and greatest hardware technology will/may not serve you well, if at all.