Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 10:28:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: laszlo vagner <vagner@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sio cables (was: warning on iwill MS's) Message-ID: <19980625102843.A18784@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199806192217.RAA00958@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>; from laszlo vagner on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 05:17:52PM -0500 References: <199806192217.RAA00958@mutsgo.kf7nn.com>
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On Friday, 19 June 1998 at 17:17:52 -0500, laszlo vagner wrote: > I have noticed problems with the serial ports on iwill motherboards > but not due to the irq thing that freebsd has identified but > due to different cabling of the MB to backplane connectors. > > a normal 10 pin to 25 pin D cable will not work on this board due to > IWILL not following the standard for the 10 pin connector. > > you may want to modify older cables to fit this MB like i had to. > > results. > > IWILL STANDARD > _________________________________________________________________________ > 10 pin ----------- 25 pin 10 pin --------------- 25 pin > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 8 1 8 > 2 6 2 3 > 3 3 3 2 > 4 4 4 20 > 5 2 5 7 > 6 5 6 6 > 7 20 7 4 > 8 22 8 5 > 9 7 9 22 > _________________________________________________________________________ Thanks for the research. This isn't a specific problem with IWill: it's been around since long before IWill was founded. There are at least two different kinds of cable out there. Hopefully this list will make it easier to recognize which is which. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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