I found the problem. I have a bad cable that I have been using on the Empeg. It gives me a link light on each end. The Cabletron works with it. How could that cable be bad. I had just assumed(yes I know how much trouble that words) that if the cable worked with one it would work with all.

Now I remember reading about in the Cabletron manual that it will work with miswired cables. It just corrects the problem internally. They recommend you fix the problem and not keep using miswired cables. My problem with that is, if it worked and gave link lights and tranferred data, how would you ever know that you had a miswired cable.

So basically to answer my earlier question, "What is the Cabletron doing?" It is correcting a bad cable problem.

So thanks to all the people that worked on this for me.

P.S. I cut that cable up and threw it away!!!