Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 00:49:57 +1100 (EST) From: rich@spirit.com.au (Rich Siggs) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: radova@risc6.unisa.ac.za, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 16 ports Boca - anyone using it? Message-ID: <199511241349.AAA15646@pod.spirit.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199511221642.KAA07545@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 22, 95 10:42:36 am
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'morning Joe'n'Co, > > On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, A. Radovanovic wrote: > > > I got a Boca BB2016 16 ports serial card. I am thinking to put it into the > > > 2.0 system, but I am not shure is it going to work? > > Yes, I have one BB2016 installed and working on a 33MHz 386 running > > FreeBSD 2.0.5. It's currently serving 8 lines with a mix of 14.4Kbps and > > 28.8Kbps modems. I have another 2016 waiting to be installed in our > > other modem server... I use a single BB2016 in each of my Servers (plus the odd AST/4 ;) often at high port utilisation & speed (mostly, full 16ports @ 57.6k & full modem cntl :) They sure do work fine & are _fantastic_ value, if you can source the damn 10way RJ-45 connectors! (That sure was a pain here in Oz.. But if anyone needs some BB2016 Cables - then I can now help ;) But.. > I've been using one and have had mild problems - but I am currently > suspecting the motherboard rather than the BocaBoard (every few weeks > FreeBSD stops "seeing" interrupts from the board, fascinating, there's > now a probe on the interrupt line so we can determine the hardware reality, > but I suspect it will look just fine... *nod* Yup -- I agree (about some 'mild problems'). My first card had bad probe problems, with the odd 1 or more ports simply not probing-on-boot.. Actually, this has stabilised greatly since I re-org'd the "guts" of that Server ;) My current gripe is on 'lockups' (whole machine) when quickly going through multiple stty's in /etc/rc.serial (err - I'm on fBSD 1.1.5.1 + Patches btw ;) When I investigated this, I found that pauses between stty invocations were a good quick fix. ;) Needless to say, this particular card is going back to the Distributor shortly. > and I'm using similar multiport > hardware elsewhere, so I doubt it's FreeBSD... and that motherboard is a > bit strange). Same here, with 2 x AST/4 cards also in the same Server (at the time) there are no other/previous stty problems.. > Anyways, even in my case, it works GREAT 98% of the time :-) Other than > the $^*@^@#^%$@ 10-pin RJ45-ish connectors which are a real pain (I like to > make my own cables). Highly recommended piece of inexpensive hardware. > ... Joe > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Absolutely - gripes aside & dealt with, these cards as just great! g'nite, Rich. -- Richard Siggs admin@spirit.com.au Spirit Networks Pty Ltd http://www.spirit.net.au P.O. Box 486 +61 6 281 3552 Curtin. ACT. Australia 2605 +61 15 486 708
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