Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:24786 comp.unix.xenix:4993 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ur-valhalla!micropen!dave From: dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Everex Step 386/20 -- Power-up problems! Summary: sounds familiar Message-ID: <653@micropen> Date: 15 Feb 89 17:16:10 GMT References: <1989Feb14.175249.25055@ateng.ateng.com> Organization: Micropen Dirent Writing Systems, Pittsford, NY Lines: 21 In article <1989Feb14.175249.25055@ateng.ateng.com>, chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > If you powered them on while the printer was on and connected, they were > dead. Nothing. Nada. Not even the fancy front panel display. > > So has anyone else had this trouble with Everex Step 386 motherboards? Are > we the only Everex users with printers and Archive tapes? What's going on? > -- > Chip Salzenberg or We have used Steps here since last spring. We have had *1* customer report of this sort (rev E) and were unable to duplicate the problem here (Everex QIC-02 tape card.) By my experience, not all revs of E boards will fail with certain devices attached, but those that do really suck. I'm glad I know what this little deal is now. -- David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc. micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu "The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll