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- From: bubba@insync.net (Bill Garfield)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: S3 and COM4
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:01:58 GMT
- Organization: Associated Technical Consultants
- Message-ID: <310ebd04.3299666@news.insync.net>
- References: <MODEMS-L%96013010012473@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> <4eljgk$r7o@ias2.ichange.com>
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- aharris@maf.mobile.al.us (Andy Harris) wrote:
-
- >Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT%TREARN.BITNET@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> wrote:
- >
- >>Did anyone know that S3 croaks if you have a COM4?
- >
- >ATI cards also take up the address of COM4, so no go with those,
- >either....
-
- Here is a posting Dave Tatosian <tatosian@plough.enet.dec.com> posted in
- another forum which explains in detail:
-
- [snip]
-
- "The problem is *NOT* the graphics cards, it's in the cheap modem cards
- that don't do a full (16 bit) decode of the port addresses as they fly
- down the bus. COM4 uses port address 02E8. The ATI GPT uses address 46E8
- in any mode above VGA. Because the cheap modem cards (as well as cheap
- serial port cards) only bother to decode the lower 10 bits of the port
- address, address 46E8 will be "aliased" to 2E8 by these cheaply
- implemented cards.
-
- 02E8 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
- 46E8 = 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0
- -----------------------
- These (10) bits are equal
-
- If the modem card decoded the full 16-bit port address, there wouldn't
- be any problem. So the solution is not to blame the graphics card, but
- to buy a modem that uses a full 16-bit address decoder!"
- [unsnip]
-
- One possible workaround that I've found is to change the base i/o
- address of your COM4 device to 02E0 - of course you'll need a serial
- board that will ALLOW re-addressing if the base i/o, such as the
- Multi-tech ISI-551 card. - No, alas, it doesn't do a full 16-bit address
- decode either but with you CAN reassign the base i/o address.
-
-
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