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> 
> Anybody having any info on how this is implemented ??
> 
> If I can get my hands on this, I'll write a driver for
> it asap, if I need to reverseengineer it, well, it will
> take a little longer, but it is legal here in the EU :)
> 
> (Digiboard are you listening??)
Is this the same protocol used for the DigiChannel Boxes??  I have access to 
about 80 ports worth of digichannel's from a customer that upgraded his NCR to 
an HP9000, including the EISA interface cards for them (Do they make PCI?). I 
would be willing to throw my weight into a project to make these boxes work 
with FreeBSD, if I could find out what is required to talk to them.

	brian

BTW> The last UNIX driver I wrote was my own version of a driver for the 
non-intelligent Digiboard 4 Channel boards (there's was broken at the time).  
I later ported it to MS-DOS when we moved the office system software there.
Just pointing out I may be a leetle rusty.