Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:25:18 +0200 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chase research AT series cards. Message-ID: <199604122025.AA05582@Sisyphos> In-Reply-To: "Phil Taylor" <phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk> "Chase research AT series cards." (Apr 12, 20:05)
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On Apr 12, 20:05, "Phil Taylor" wrote: } Subject: Chase research AT series cards. } With regard to my previous message on this list I am now in } possession of a Chase NDA which will give me all of the } Firmware/Hardware specs of the card including the SCO driver source. } } They are quite happy about source or binary level re-distribution of } any driver that I may create as long as I don't release any specific } data that I built it from. } } I will soon be looking at starting the driver so i will need LOADS of } help from EVERYONE !!!!!! } } If anyone has any comments / help (like : why bother with a card } whose technology is 7 years old, which is what Chase said) then } please let me know. Hi Phil! 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 ;-) 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 :) Let me know if you are interested in me performing some tests with that card and a driver of yours. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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