[FADCA] 4 port serial cards

[John H. Green]

Hi All
    One thing to remember here is that DOS FPAC deals with irq's and 
address's, not com ports. A com port is a name that an operating uses to 
allow an application to not have to deal with hardware.  DOS Fpac works 
directly with the hardware, thus allowing us to have more ports than the 
bios or operating system allows. We can also use non-standard 
assignments, such as 3f8 address with irq 9.
    If I remember right, this is not the same with Linux FPAC, one of 
the reasons it is more difficult to set up.
73  from windy WY.
John

Bill Sinbine wrote:

> At 06:25 AM 8/8/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Bill:
>> Here is what I am using in my XP computer- with this card I now have six
>> comports available.
>>
>> http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=190
>>
>> SIIG also makes a four-port ISA card.  I'm using one of those in a DOS
>> computer getting ready for a five-port FPAC switch.  So far I can get 
>> all
>> four ports working if I disable the single on-mother board serial port.
>> With the on-board serial port enabled, I can get any three of the 
>> SIIG ports
>> to work with it.  I'm still trying to unlock the key to that problem, 
>> but it
>> may be than none of my DOS-based comport testing programs will work with
>> more than four ports!  My next thing to try is to go ahead and 
>> install the
>> FPAC software as I assume it will find any comport that will work. 
>> That may
>> be the only way I can test!
>
>
> Most of the bios in the computers will only show up to 4 com ports 
> bud. I have one that will only show 3. This hasn't been a problem as 
> all 6 have worked. I can send you the config file for the old Stuart 
> site so you can see what we used for settings. I'm sure I still have a 
> copy of it here somewhere.. Let me know.
>
>
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> Bill Sinbine
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