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Re: [ECS] Multiport one more time William Biggs Sat, 27 Feb 1999 09:08:18 -0600

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I am using the PCI Byterunner under Win98, with 8 ports. I have them
assigned at Com 5 - 12.

My only problem was finding as spare interrupt for it. All of the IRQs had
been assigned on my Dell V333c when it shipped from the factory!

I ended up disabling the mouse port to free up IRQ 12, and using a USB mouse
on the USB port.

As far as the Byterunner itself, it has worked great for me at speeds up to
115 kbps. I haven't tried faster yet, as I don't have any devices that go
faster.  I loaded ECS for windows on it about 5 months ago and it used the
ports OK, but I am not using the Windows product for daily use yet.

Reddy


-----Original Message-----
From: hutchins.ta@pg.com <hutchins.ta@pg.com>
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ECS] Multiport one more time


>I'm very interesred also. I looked up the Byte Runner boards and found the
>following at their site:
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>The following cards only require 1 IRQ each. The cards have the option of
>16550 or 16750
>   UART chips. Settable to COM1-COM99. Settable clock frequency to support
>fast data
>  transfer rates (up to 921,800 bps). Card comes with an octopus cable
>which plugs on the
>  back of the card and fans out to 8 DB25 serial connector cables (the
>cables are
>  approximately 3 feet long. If you need them to be longer, you can plug
>25-pin male to 25-pin
>  female serial cables on the cables coming off the octopus to extend the
>length. We sell these
>  cables also.) 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.
>
>Price is $179 each or $139 each for 3 min
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>
>www.byterunner.com
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>
>Tom
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>From: "dastorey" <dastorey@swbell.net> on 02/25/99 10:14 PM
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>Please respond to ecs-list@netbloc.com
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>To:   ecs-list@netbloc.com
>cc:    (bcc: Thomas Hutchins-TA/PGI)
>Subject:  [ECS] Multiport one more time
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>I have read most of the messages posted to the list about multi-port serial
>cards. My question is.  Do some of the cards support Single IRQ without
>request and data buffering and other with buffering for the afore mentioned
>or are they all basically the same. I see posting saying Byterunner will
>not
>share IRQ's with ECS and others saying it will.  Reference to Applied
>Digital etc.
>I am running a Pent 200 I can go PCI or ISA. (prefer PCI).  At this point
>price is not as much of an option as performance.  I have additional
>equipment on the way which will mandate that I use a multi port serial port
>that supports using one interrupt. Got a Buddy in the same shape. We will
>sponsor (do the front money)   a group purchase if we find the right
>product
>and we can move quickly (48 hours).
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