Re: In search of Parallel and serial cards for Openserver 6

From: Bill Campbell (bill_at_celestial.com)
Date: 09/24/05 

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:11:26 -0700
To: sco-misc@lists.celestial.com

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005, Boss wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I am in need of an additional serial port and an additional parallel
>port on an OSR6 server I just installed. The motherboard has PCI and
>PCIX-1 slots available. I had planned on using USB for the printer, but
>(as you may already know) OSR USB printing is still not ready for primetime.
>
>I know the Digi NEO 2-port DB9 card supports OSR5 and I have used SIIG
>PCI parallel ports on OSR5.0.7.
>
>I have already tried two PCI parallel ports and neither are recognized
>by the OS. A hw -r pci report shows one as a "Simple communications
>controller" and the other as a "Simple 16550 controller" which are
>wrong. 16550, after all, is a serial UART chip.
>
>Has anyone tried a 1 or 2 port serial, a 1 port parallel or a combo PCI
>card with OSR6.

I haven't tried on OSR6, but I have found that the SIIG cards
have worked well on pretty much any OS I've tried them on.

Bill 

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