Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:00:44 GMT From: "Phil Taylor" <phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chase research AT series cards. Message-ID: <1EDD65B047E@lansys.webleicester.co.uk>
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> Some 7 or eight years ago I got a Chase Research AT16 card
> (name from memory) for some companies 386/ix based server.
> It is an intelligent card (does unix line mode) with 16 I/Os
> up to 38400Baud, if I remember right. The card had the bad
> habit of ports locking up under 386/ix one each day, and the
> system had to be rebooted to clear the lock. (But since there
> were a few spare ports, the terminals were just moved to the
> next free port, until too many were inoperational ;-)
I now have the Sco Unix/Xenix driver sources and from some of the
comments within this isn't surprising !!!!
My main reason for doing this is that I am sure their are loads of
people like you and I who have old at4/8/16's around and would like
to put them to use in a proper un*x (g).
And as they are pretty old plenty of them will be turning up at junk
shows.
>
> Since this system has been out of service for some time, I
> might be able to get hold of that card. I have no real use
> for it, but if you are going to write a driver, I could do
> some compatibility tests, at least.
> In fact, I could go into the ISP business with that card and
> a FreeBSD driver for it :)
This is what chase thought I was doing !!!!
Until I pointed out that we use Ascend Servers / Netblazers.
>
> Let me know if you are interested in me performing some tests
> with that card and a driver of yours.
>
Yes great, as I have only just started, I haven't got anything to
show yet, but I will have soon (hopefully), I am using their SCO
Driver as a starting block, so the first job is removing all of the
comments about SCO programmers :-)
As soon as I have something I will let you know.
Cheers
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