Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:12:05 -0600 (CST) From: obiwan!bob@uudell.us.dell.com (Bob Willcox) To: jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards Message-ID: <m0rqlvy-0002zzC@obiwan.uucp> In-Reply-To: <199503191243.NAA15422@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Mar 19, 95 01:43:20 pm
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Julian Howard Stacey wrote:
>
> Re.
> > is there an AST/8, or other 8 port 16550 board that works
> > with the "sio" driver? There will be at least two other light duty
> > serial ports for this application. An AST/4 plus COM1 and COM2
> > will do it, but I would just as soon identify another path.
>
> I use an 8 serial card with 16450s,
> seems to me it'd be trivial to chop them off, solder suck the pads,
> & solder on 16550s ....
I have done this with 4-port cards. I suggest that you solder in
sockets instead of 16550's though. Makes future changes alot easier ;-)
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