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#! rnews 1692 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!svc.portal.com!opentext.com!yank.kitchener.on.ca!not-for-mail From: richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca (Rich Wales) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2-CURRENT sio silo overflow (was: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE sio silo overflows?) Date: 16 Sep 1996 09:30:13 -0400 Organization: Opinions expressed in this posting are mine alone Lines: 19 Sender: richw@dialup1.opentext.com Message-ID: <19960916132113.richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca> References: <50i54c$mq7@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <51a8vo$nre@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <51f9m5$jo3@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <323C9AD6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: opengate.opentext.com "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: Since both of these serial ports are on the same ISA add-on card, does it not strike you as extremely strange that one of them is probing as a 16450? Not necessarily. I have an ISA serial/parallel card, for example, that came with one UART (a 16450) soldered to the board. It had sockets for a second (optional) UART and the associated line driver chips. I expanded the card with a 16550A, used the second COM port for a high- speed modem, and put a mouse on the first port. It worked just fine. I'm just starting to play with FreeBSD and haven't had a chance to try out this particular card under the new system, but since it has a real 16550A, I see no reason to expect any problems. Rich Wales <richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca> http://yank.kitchener.on.ca/~richw/