From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 05:00:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA06607 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 05:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntserv.webleicester.co.uk ([206.249.75.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA06601 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 05:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.249.75.17] by ntserv.webleicester.co.uk (NTMail 3.01.00) id ha002399; Tue, 16 Apr 1996 12:00:27 +0000 Received: from LANSYS/SpoolDir by lansys.webleicester.co.uk (Mercury 1.21); 16 Apr 96 13:00:56 +0000 Received: from SpoolDir by LANSYS (Mercury 1.21); 16 Apr 96 13:00:49 +0000 From: "Phil Taylor" Organization: Lan Systems To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:00:44 GMT Subject: Re: Chase research AT series cards. Reply-to: phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk CC: hackers@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Message-ID: <1EDD65B047E@lansys.webleicester.co.uk> X-Info: The Web Factory (Leicester) Elecctronic Mail System Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 /* Phil Taylor phil@webleicester.co.uk LAN Systems - LAN/WAN Specialists Tel: (Direct Line) 0116 223 0033 (Main Number) 0116 255 9961 (Facsimile) 0116 255 8861 */