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In-reply-to: Michael Smith's message of Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:14:07 +0930 (CST) <199507270544.PAA06639@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Problems installing a serial card...
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   From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
   Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 15:14:07 +0930 (CST)
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   Timothy Moore stands accused of saying:
   Hmm.  What happens if you power the machine down and up again? (I presume
   you did it when you removed the ether card, but you may have booted
   DOS first...)

Same result: "sio2 not found..." and sio3 too.

   > Here's an additional detail:  the docs say the card is 16550A
   > compatible, but msd reports the UARTS as "16550AF".  Is that an issue?

   Not really; it's all abuse of terminology.  What brand are the 16550's?
   Are they, by any chance, inside a Startech 16C552?

No, but close; the board (made by Kouwell) has two Startech 16C550CP
chips on it.

Tim
(who's somewhat amazed at this outpouring of advice)