Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:41:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: bugs@sax.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: multi IO boards Message-ID: <199507141641.AA19457@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199507131543.AA02527@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de> from "Ulf Kieber" at Jul 13, 95 05:43:56 pm
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Hi,
we currently discuss buying a multi IO card, and I'd need some help to
make the proper decision. As the market for that kinda equipment is
rather narrow in Germany, I'm having a very hard time getting my hands
on appropriate documentation.
We had an offer for a BocaBoard 1004 and BocaBoard 1008, both not
usable for our purposes, because they are lacking modem control. The
IOAT66 seems to be ok, but has some restriction: only 6 ports, can
only use IRQ 4 and 5 as shared IRQs (IRQ 4 is already used for our COM
console, and hence cannot be freed).
I'd like to hear, if there are any other cards available (I think
there is at least an AST 8 port card I'd like to see documentation
for), meeting the following requirements:
- all ports fifo buffered,
- shared IRQ possible (the more choices [especially the IRQs above 8]
the better),
- hardware modem control,
- 8 or 16 ports (best choice would be an 8 port card with an upgrade
option to 16 ports, maybe just some empty sockets on the board),
- DB25 connectors, if possible,
- should of course be supported by FreeBSD. :)
Rodney Grimes told me to look into the BocaBoard 2016, but asked me to
verify if it meets our requirements.
If anybody using that kind of equipment is willing to share
experiences I'd be interested too.
Note: I'm not on freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, please be sure to send
me a Cc.
TIA
--
Ulf Kieber
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