Re: S-Bus 8-serial/1 parallel

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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00

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In <3649585F.DA934A12@dial.pipex.com> Dean Darlison <dean_darlison@dial.pipex.com> writes:

>I have an old S-Bus card (plus extender box) providing an extra parallel
>and 8 serial ports. This was installed and working on a Sparc2 running
>SunOs 4.1.3.

>What are the issues in moving this to an Ultra2  with Solaris 2.6 ? Can
>it be done. (I.e just plug, boot -r,  and pray ?) Or is there a driver
>or compatibility issue ?

It's definitely supported in SunOS 5.6, because I've got two of them here
(complete with breakout panels and connecting cables) and they work fine,
although the serial port speed is limited to 38400 bps. This isn't much of a
problem for most applications though, especially non-critical PPP links,
etc.

There doesn't appear to be any intention of dropping support for them in
SunOS 5.7 (aka Solaris [2.]7), so I'd presume they will continue to be
supported for some time to come.

Regards,

Craig.

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Date: 1998/11/12
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