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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: derekp@MCS.COM (Derek Pressnall) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: More than 32 ports for FreeBSD? Date: 6 Sep 1994 15:08:01 -0500 Organization: Another MCSNet Subscriber, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet! Lines: 15 Message-ID: <34ii71$5km@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com The subject line says it all: Is it possible to use more than 32 ports under FreeBSD? The SIO man page says that port numbers that are multiples of 32 are used to implement additional features (initial-state, lock-state, callout, etc). The setup I want to use would consist of 3-4 Boca 16-port cards. Also, I'm currently running with a Boca 8-port card, but can't get port 7 to work. On bootup, the driver says it can't find SIO10 at 0x130, but the others are coming up fine. Would that mean that my board is defective? I've checked for IO conflicts by changing the jumpers to various other base IO addresses and recompiling, and I still get the error on the same port. Thanks, --derek pressnall <derekp@mcs.com>