VP/ix vs AST5251/11 Help

[Ed Drury]

   I've been handed a SCO Unix V/386 machine, VP/ix, and an AST
5251/11 PLUS Emulator board  to try and make work together. Ok,
it occurs to me someone has either done, or tried and failed at
this before. Since my initial efforts resulted in failure , I 
thought I would post a cry for help.

 My first attempt was to make a dda for VP/ix and that *almost* seemed
to be the ticket. Running the AST software program it found the board
and went through the entire self test till the last test in the list
where it reports "unable to chain IRQ". AST Tech support suggested using
IRQ five, so I reinstalled the DDA  to use IRQ 5 and set the I/O map
amd memory map addresses per their recommendations. I've not been able
to find the damn thing from VP/ix since :-).

 The only minior conflicts I have is a Digicomm Board. That I can move
almost anywhere with little difficulty if I can just get the 5251 emulator
flying.

 I'd be very happy to hear from anyone who has fought the battle of 
accessing an IBM SYS/3x type machine from a 386i type machine with the
spoils including "PC-Support" type file transfers. Email is probably
implied , But I will happily summarize , forward and otherwise share
information if I can get this thing to work.

 Thanks in advance,
  
      Ed Drury                              ..!tektronix!percy!edrury

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