From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jul 16 06:05:17 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA23271 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 06:05:17 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23246 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 06:05:12 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA00682; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:05:01 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507160835.SAA00682@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: multi IO boards To: uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 18:05:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, bugs@sax.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199507141641.AA19457@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> from "Ulf Kieber" at Jul 14, 95 06:41:23 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2516 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ulf Kieber stands accused of saying: > we currently discuss buying a multi IO card, and I'd need some help to > make the proper decision. As the market for that kinda equipment is > rather narrow in Germany, I'm having a very hard time getting my hands > on appropriate documentation. The market is generally pretty rough. You may have a (slightly) better time if you try talking to a supplier that handles the industrial control business, or one that's into SCO systems 8) > We had an offer for a BocaBoard 1004 and BocaBoard 1008, both not > usable for our purposes, because they are lacking modem control. The > IOAT66 seems to be ok, but has some restriction: only 6 ports, can > only use IRQ 4 and 5 as shared IRQs (IRQ 4 is already used for our COM > console, and hence cannot be freed). Yuck. Stay away. > I'd like to hear, if there are any other cards available (I think > there is at least an AST 8 port card I'd like to see documentation > for), meeting the following requirements: There's a number of 8-port AST compatibles that work quite well; you can get them with 16550's already onboard. (Mandatory for FreeBSD). > - all ports fifo buffered, > - shared IRQ possible (the more choices [especially the IRQs above 8] > the better), > - hardware modem control, > - 8 or 16 ports (best choice would be an 8 port card with an upgrade > option to 16 ports, maybe just some empty sockets on the board), 8 ports is the best I've seen. > - DB25 connectors, if possible, Not very easy 8) the 4-port boards have a D37 connector, the 8-port ones usually have a double-slot backplane with two D37's. The cards come with D37 to D-25 adapters, so you do eventually get the D25's. > - should of course be supported by FreeBSD. :) There's ten or so sites around here using them with no trouble at all. > Rodney Grimes told me to look into the BocaBoard 2016, but asked me to > verify if it meets our requirements. The boards in use here are PC-COM boards, the "8 port RS232 FIFO card" > Ulf Kieber Hope that's of some use. > Don't expect me to be a breeder, and I won't assume you're a fag. I _like_ that 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[