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Re: [ECS] Quad serial boards William Biggs Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:10:58 -0500

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Bill,

I am using an Applied Digital SIO4F-232.

I use COM5 - COM8 , all on IRQ5.  I have my Davis weather station, Panasonic
PBX SMDR, Vive CID, and hopefully soon my thermostat on this card.

No problems in the 3 - 4 years it's been running. No drivers are needed. It
uses RJ45 connectors to the card, and RJ45 to DB25 couplers.

Did you run the ECS  SETUP.EXE program to define the address of the ports ?
That could be your problem. Be sure you specify the interrupts and address
for each com port you use.

I'm not sure what Applied Digital is doing these days, but in between
selling tanning beds and doing lighting for Kenny Rogers Theatre they may
have the time to sell you one.

Or maybe not. They're a bit strange. So don't take it personally.

Their number is 417-338-5101. Their web site is www.appdig.com.


Reddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Freeman <freemanb@us.ibm.com>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ECS] Quad serial boards


>Group:
>
>Has anyone out there had any success at sharing interrupts on any multiport
>serial board running ECSD (i.e. on DOS).   If so, I'd appreciate some hints
as
>to how ECS needs to be configured and/or which device drivers are necessary
to
>get this to work.
>
>I was unsuccessful in my initial attempt at this using my Byterunner board
and
>the "Fossil" drivers they recommended.   No matter what I tried ECS
continued
>to complain whenever I defined more than one COM device to be using the
same
>physical interrupt.   (It seemed particularly unhappy to see my mouse and
PLC
>controller on the same interrupt level).   I've currently got all (used)
ports
>defined on separate interrupts, but have, as you might expect, I run out of
>interrupts well before running out of ports.
>
>Any tips would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks and Regards,
>
>Bill Freeman
>Freemanb@us.ibm.com
>
>
>
>ddubay@umich.edu on 09/16/98 11:06:09 PM
>Please respond to ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
>cc:
>Subject: Re: [ECS] Quad serial boards
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>
>Reddy,
>
>I didn't try the byterunner boards.  This reference was given to me
>bysomeone else on the list.  I agree they look pretty good.
>
>Dan Dubay
>
>>>> "William Biggs" <william@qualityhunt.com> 09/16 8:53 PM >>>
>Dan,
>
>Have you tried the byterunner boards ?  They work OK ?
>
>Their PCI board looked very attractive to me :
>
>"The following card's serial are addressable to IRQs 3-15 and require
>only 1
>IRQ. The card is available with 16550 or 16750 UART chips. Settable to
>COM1-COM99. Settable clock frequency to support fast data transfer
>rates (up
>to 921,600 bps). Card uses an octopus cable which plugs on the back and
>fans
>out to 4 DB25 serial connector cables (the cables are about 5 inches
>long,
>so you will probably need to plug a 25-pin male to 25-pin female
>serial
>cable on to the cables to extend the length.) 32-bit PCI-bus. Plug &
>Play.
>Card designed for use with DOS, Windows 95, 98 & NT 4.0. Drivers for
>these
>operating systems are included."
>
>They use a PCI slot
>They have up to **eight** serial ports, sharing the same IRQ, settable
>to
>COM1 - COM99!?!?.
>Cost starts at $64 for 2 ports and $179 for 8 ports.
>
>If three of us want to order as a group, the price for the 8 port drops
>to
>$129.75 each.
>
>See http://www.byterunner.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?FILE=iocards.html
>
>At this rate I could hook up a **whole ** lot more serial devices....
>
>Reddy
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Dubay <ddubay@umich.edu>
>To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
>Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 6:53 PM
>Subject: Re: [ECS] CallerID-Int-A
>
>
>>Sorry this took me so long Carl.  I just purchased a board from:
>> http://www.bb-elec.com/catalog/cards/cards.html
>>If you follow the instructions with the poard for setting the jumpers
>>and then install new com ports in WIN95 and set the same
>irq/addresses
>>it should work.
>>
>>Another source is:
>>http://www.byterunner.com/cgi-bin/goto.cgi?FILE=iocards.html
>>
>>Good Luck!
>>
>>Dan Dubay
>>
>>>>> Carl Keyes <Ckeyes@duey.california.com> 09/12 5:53 AM >>>
>>Dan,
>>
>>I'm still having no luck setting up com ports that work.
>>I've taken it in to have it done "professionally" but that hasn't
>>worked
>>either. Where would I find a quad serial board? I'm going to need the
>>extra ports
>>in the near future. God knows who I might find to try and install it.
>>
>>PC hater,
>>
>>Carl K
>>
>>Daniel Dubay wrote:
>>>
>>> I now have two quad serial boards in my Win95 machine.  Each is
>>> configured for sharing one IRQ.  The first is configured for com5-8
>>and
>>> has RJ45 connectors.  The second is com9-12 and has DB15 and DB25
>>> connectors.  This is very versatile and leaves com1-4 for modem
>etc.
>>I
>>> particularly like the RJ45 connectors because they eliminate many
>>> adaptors.  I can get web addresses if you need them.  Other people
>>on
>>> this list gave them to me.
>>>
>>> Dan Dubay
>>
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