Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:41:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: Josef Belkovics <belkovic@albert.osu.cz> To: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Cyclades Cyclom-8YeP on 2.2.7 and 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.981021133806.2290A-100000@albert.osu.cz> In-Reply-To: <199810211114.VAA23748@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
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> | > The (ISA) 16Ye's are almost the same. If there are no ports connected, > | > you don't find the card at all. The 16Ye's have a SCSI-2 cable to a > | > bunch of ports. > | > | I have 2.2.7 FreeBSD Release, driver from ftp.cyclades.com, Cyclom-Ye/ISA > | card and one SM Cyclom-8Ye/DB25. Card is found indenpendently of it, if > | modem(s) is(are) on or off. > > Yes this is true. If the ports are not physically connected to the > card via the cable, the card does not appear. I agree. > | > I don't know about the PCI ones, and I don't know about the 8-way > | > octopus cable ones. > | > > | > The new cyclades driver is required for the SM MkII pods, not for > | > the card AFAIK. There also seems to be weirdness if you have an old > | > serial pod, and a new serial pod on the same card. > | > | What means MkII? > > It refers to the revision of the Cirrus Logic Chip that controls > each group of four ports. There are two main version. On the serial > pod you will see either SM 16 or SM 16 II. MkII refers to the pods > that have the SM16 II marking. > > Apart from the problems with the old and new pods together I've > had no problems with the ISA versions of these cards. I don't see > that the PCI driver is all that different from the ISA version. > > At least you don't have to manipulate dip switches on the PCI version. As I see, better is don't manipulate with the PCI version at all. Thanks. Josef Belkovics To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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