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Re: [ECS] byterunner report William Biggs Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:48:59 -0500

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Thanks Wayne,

I checked out www.byterunner.com and it looks like using the shared IRQ for
all 8 ports is easier for Win95 than it is for DOS for their cards.

It would bug me a little bit if I needed to run a program like their
"fossil.exe" to load the drivers. Gives you the idea that the stuff is
becoming obsolete. (I'm not kidding...they really named it fossil !).

I've made the decision to migrate to ECSW soon. Does anybody have a source
for PCI serial cards ? Or something that uses USB to access serial devices ?

Reddy




-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne <waynew@magicnet.net>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Saturday, August 22, 1998 4:22 PM
Subject: [ECS] byterunner report


>  I have kinda gotten the ByteRunner (model TC-800-S5-8) 8 port serial card
>to work with ECS (dos still version 3.3).  It now shares IRQ3 among 4
serial
>ports.  It does seem to require the use of the x00 driver from the
>byterunner web site for IRQ sharing.  Tha board docs are kinda weak, but
the
>board seems very configurable, based on the number of jumpers on the board.
>  My problem has been getting ports 5-8 working.  I ran out of time (and
>patience) so I will pick it up another time.
>  But at least I am back where I was before one of my ports failed on my
old
>4 port card, possibly due to lightning.  The byterunner uses socketed UARTS
>(16550 on mine), so I hope it will be easier to repair, if needed.  My old
>card was surface mount stuff, so no way to swap a blown driver chip.
>  I believe that this board would be pretty easy to set up and use for ECSW
>folks.
>
>c'ya,
>Wayne
>
>   waynew 'at' magicnet 'dot' net,   Orlando, FL
>   http://www.magicnet.net/~waynew
>
>

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