Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:14:55 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> To: belkovic@albert.osu.cz (Josef Belkovics) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Cyclades Cyclom-8YeP on 2.2.7 and 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199810211114.VAA23748@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981021112829.1314A-100000@albert.osu.cz> from Josef Belkovics at "Oct 21, 98 12:47:28 pm"
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+----[ Josef Belkovics ]--------------------------------------------- | > The (ISA) 16Ye's are almost the same. If there are no ports connected, | > you don't find the card at all. The 16Ye's have a SCSI-2 cable to a | > bunch of ports. | | I have 2.2.7 FreeBSD Release, driver from ftp.cyclades.com, Cyclom-Ye/ISA | card and one SM Cyclom-8Ye/DB25. Card is found indenpendently of it, if | modem(s) is(are) on or off. Yes this is true. If the ports are not physically connected to the card via the cable, the card does not appear. | > I don't know about the PCI ones, and I don't know about the 8-way | > octopus cable ones. | > | > The new cyclades driver is required for the SM MkII pods, not for | > the card AFAIK. There also seems to be weirdness if you have an old | > serial pod, and a new serial pod on the same card. | | What means MkII? It refers to the revision of the Cirrus Logic Chip that controls each group of four ports. There are two main version. On the serial pod you will see either SM 16 or SM 16 II. MkII refers to the pods that have the SM16 II marking. | What means AFAIK? "As Far A I Know" -- it's not long now before every sentence will be reduced to an acronym, then they can all just be numbered. Apart from the problems with the old and new pods together I've had no problems with the ISA versions of these cards. I don't see that the PCI driver is all that different from the ISA version. At least you don't have to manipulate dip switches on the PCI version. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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