From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 12 13:25:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA13489 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13465 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by Sisyphos id AA05582 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:25:18 +0200 Message-Id: <199604122025.AA05582@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:25:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Phil Taylor" "Chase research AT series cards." (Apr 12, 20:05) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: phil@lansys.webleicester.co.uk Subject: Re: Chase research AT series cards. Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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