[TRLog] SIIG Serial PCI

[Ward Silver]

I'll be terse to keep from adding any speculative information...73, Ward

> What address did the Siig ports come up for on COM3 and 4?
> What IRQ are they using?

The usual and the usual

> Have you been able to get TR to recognize a PCI card at a non standard address
> (i.e other than 3E8,2E8,2F8,3F8).?

No

> And most importantly can you get TR to recognize a PCI card at COM5 and
> COM6?If so using what IRQ? 

Yes, but only from the MS-DOS prompt within Win98.  I don't know what
IRQ's.  But I had other problems with the parallel ports when running TR
in that Windows mode, so I didn't pursue it.

When first installed, the PCI card mapped itself to COM 5/6 because I'd
had an old, defective ISA card previously.  I removed the COM 3/4 ports
and then reset the PCI card, all using the Win System/Device Manager
controls.  It then came up as COM 3/4, but TR didn't recognize it from the
Command Mode because I didn't have the correct DOS drivers installed.

> A Comp -USA 2 ser/1 parallel? Are you sure this is a PCI card and not an ISA
> card? I was recently  (last week ) in Comp USA and the only 2S/1P cards they
> had were ISA (by Siig by the way, these are jumpered ISA cards and do work at
> least for COM 3 and 4)

They're PCI, alright.  Cost about $50.  I'm at work, or I'd go look up the
mfr. for you.

The bottom line is that I run TR from the Command Mode only and everything
seems to work.  Running it from within a Win98 MS-DOS window gave me fits
with the parallel ports.  By the way, my system uses the ASUS MA-99 (I
think) motherboard, in case that makes a difference.

> 
> Dave
> NR1DX


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