[TRLog] SIIG Serial PCI

[Gary J. Ferdinand W2CS]

I'm using a SIIG card that contains 2 serial ports.  It is a PCI card. It is
installed in a Windows 98 system.   The card installed without a hitch and
came up configured as COM5 and COM6.  The only other COM ports in the system
are COM1 and COM2, both motherboard ports.

As I recall I had to specify to TR both the COM number and the port address,
the latter in hexadecimal. There is a very specific format for the hex
address specification.  I screwed that up the first time around.

Good luck/73,

Gary W2CS



| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-trlog@contesting.com [mailto:owner-trlog@contesting.com]On
| Behalf Of NR1DX
| Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 6:49 PM
| To: trlog@contesting.com
| Subject: Re: [TRLog] SIIG Serial PCI
|
|
|
| Gary
|
| Are you using an ISA or PCI style card? I have tried both Siig
| and Byterunner
| PCI cards with the same result as you ( I suspect you are using a
| PCI based
| card).
|
|  I think the broader question is there anybody out there who is
| "successfully"
| using the <SERIAL 5 (or 6) PORT ADDRESS=XXXX> with a PCI based card? I am
| beginning to believe that the problem may be somehow related to
| TRLog ( and
| possibly DOS) not dealing with the PCI protocols (possibly
| perceived as an IRQ
| sharing conflict?). My Byterunner card came with DOS drivers (I
| don't remember
| now on the Siig card) but even those did not work at least with
| TRLog. I have
| no other DOS applications left that address COM5 or 6 so can't
| verify that it
| is a TR problem or PCI/DOS problem. Both cards work just fine
| with my other
| Windows based apps...... TR PORTS is also useless in diagnosing
| this problem
| because apparently it only checks COM1-4. In fact at one point I
| configured the
| Siig card as COM 4 (it still has a non standard address) and TR
| PORTS command
| still could not see the card leading to my theory about the
| problem somehow
| being PCI/IRQ related.
|
| Tree / George I will gladly send either one of you my Siig or
| Byterunner card
| if you feel up to playing with it, At this point I have 30
| frustrating manhours
| invested in trying to get them to work with TR to no avail. Took
| it out of the
| computer, reminded myself that is only a hobby and stopped
| kicking the cat.
|
| DFE0 is the HEX address and that is what TRLog should want.
|
| Dave
| NR1DX
|
|
|
|
|
|
| At 04:38 PM 11/1/00 -0800, N2UM wrote:
| >
| > Hi,
| >     In order to get more serial ports, I bought a SIIG Quartet
| Serial PCI
| > board.  It works fine in all of my programs except TR.  I know
| that I have to
| > specify the Serial Port 6 Address to get it to work.  According to the
| > computer the address is DFE0.  I've tried to use that but it doesn't
| > recognize it.  Does it have to be in Base 10 or Hex and if so
| what is the
| > equivalent of DFE0 in those formats?
| >  
| > Thanks,
| >  
| > Gary  N2UM
|
|
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