From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 11:03:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA03075 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 11:03:14 -0800 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03069 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 11:03:13 -0800 Received: from news.cs.utexas.edu by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyhxk03032; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:02:54 -0500 Received: from mail.cs.utexas.edu (root@mail.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.139.10]) by news.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA18723; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:02:55 -0600 Received: from uudell.us.dell.com (uudell.us.dell.com [143.166.224.6]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA25541; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 13:02:54 -0600 Received: from obiwan by uudell.us.dell.com (5.67/dns1.3) with UUCP id AA06915; Mon, 20 Mar 95 18:56:36 GMT Received: by obiwan.uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0rqlvy-0002zzC; Mon, 20 Mar 95 12:12 CST Message-Id: From: obiwan!bob@uudell.us.dell.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards To: jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:12:05 -0600 (CST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503191243.NAA15422@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Mar 19, 95 01:43:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 822 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Howard Stacey wrote: > > Re. > > is there an AST/8, or other 8 port 16550 board that works > > with the "sio" driver? There will be at least two other light duty > > serial ports for this application. An AST/4 plus COM1 and COM2 > > will do it, but I would just as soon identify another path. > > I use an 8 serial card with 16450s, > seems to me it'd be trivial to chop them off, solder suck the pads, > & solder on 16550s .... I have done this with 4-port cards. I suggest that you solder in sockets instead of 16550's though. Makes future changes alot easier ;-) -- Bob Willcox ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!uudell!obiwan!bob Austin, TX or: @uudell.us.dell.com:obiwan!bob 512-258-4224 (home), 512-838-3914 (work) or: obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net