From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 14 09:41:59 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA17265 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:41:59 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA17254 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 09:41:43 -0700 Received: by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19457; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:41:24 +0200 From: uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber) Message-Id: <199507141641.AA19457@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> Subject: Re: multi IO boards To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:41:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@sax.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199507131543.AA02527@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> from "Ulf Kieber" at Jul 13, 95 05:43:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1553 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, we currently discuss buying a multi IO card, and I'd need some help to make the proper decision. As the market for that kinda equipment is rather narrow in Germany, I'm having a very hard time getting my hands on appropriate documentation. We had an offer for a BocaBoard 1004 and BocaBoard 1008, both not usable for our purposes, because they are lacking modem control. The IOAT66 seems to be ok, but has some restriction: only 6 ports, can only use IRQ 4 and 5 as shared IRQs (IRQ 4 is already used for our COM console, and hence cannot be freed). I'd like to hear, if there are any other cards available (I think there is at least an AST 8 port card I'd like to see documentation for), meeting the following requirements: - all ports fifo buffered, - shared IRQ possible (the more choices [especially the IRQs above 8] the better), - hardware modem control, - 8 or 16 ports (best choice would be an 8 port card with an upgrade option to 16 ports, maybe just some empty sockets on the board), - DB25 connectors, if possible, - should of course be supported by FreeBSD. :) Rodney Grimes told me to look into the BocaBoard 2016, but asked me to verify if it meets our requirements. If anybody using that kind of equipment is willing to share experiences I'd be interested too. Note: I'm not on freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, please be sure to send me a Cc. TIA -- Ulf Kieber <{uk1, news}@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de>; ; Don't expect me to be a breeder, and I won't assume you're a fag.