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From: mckimg@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Geoffrey McKim)
Subject: Re: Netware 3.11 and Zenith
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.173512.7621@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
References: <1991Jun4.141932.27696@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 17:35:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jun4.141932.27696@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> mckimg@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>Hello everyone, me again.
>
>I have set up many 3.11 servers, and have never had this problem before:
>
>	Zenith 386 (not sure which model -- each Zenith seems to be different)
>	 	as a server.
>	Zenith ESDI Disk Controller (DTC)
>	
>I am able to run 3.11 pretty much successfully except -- random characters
>appear constantly on the console.  The characters don't start until I load
>the ISADISK driver that came with Netware.
>
>I have:
>	1. Used two completely independent sets of disks, to check for
>	   software corruption.
>	2. Swapped in an identical DTC controller.
>
>Other than the character garbage, everything works beautifully -- I can log 
>on, transfer files, etc.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas for a fix?  Is there a special "Zenith ESDI" 
>driver?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can give me!!
>
Never mind...chalk this one up to Zenith's rather bizarre monochrome "VGA" 
board.  When I replace it with any one of a number of other VGA boards,
everything works beautifully.

Thanks again anyway...

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