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- From: rcl90@
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
- Subject: Re: New 16550 serial port card: what's wrong?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 22:48:16 GMT
- Organization: IBM Austin
- Message-ID: <4f8lrg$1k2i@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>
- References: <4f6k75$pdh@zippy.cais.net> <4f7g3a$pmg@seminole.gate.net> <4f7mmk$1tv@zippy.cais.net>
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- In <4f7mmk$1tv@zippy.cais.net>, jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com) writes:
- >In article <4f7g3a$pmg@seminole.gate.net>, dhaire@gate.net (doug haire) wrote:
- >>jk93@mail.erols.com (jk93@mail.erols.com) wrote:
- >>: For only $30, a store around here is selling a Precision Instruments
- >>: High Speed Controller Card (ISA Bus, 16c550), supporting 2 16c550
- >>: serial ports, an ecp/epp parallel, floppy and game port, etc...
- >>:
- >>: 1. ......ISA IDE PORT CAN BE SELECTED AS ENABLED OR DISABLED.
- >>: PIN DEFINITION DEFAULT OPTION
- >>:
- >>: Then there are letters under the pin column, definitions like "ISA IDE
- >>: PORT EN/DISABLE, default's like "ENABLE (H)", and options like "DISABLE
- >(L)".
- >>:
- >>: That's it! If i could, i would disable anything related to IDE drive,
- >since
- >>: i don't want that interfering with my hard drive or floppy (both driven
- >>: by controller cards in my pc). But there's nothing at all on this
- >>
- >>Sounds like the "ISA IDE PORT EN/DISABLE" is what you want to set to
- >>"disable". That seems to imply that the IDE functions can be disabled and
- >>that is what you need to do in order to prevent the conflict you are
- >>getting with your other controller card. Now, if your other controller
- >>card is also IDE, you could simply remove that and hook everything up to
- >>this one.
- >>
- >>Try that disable and see what happens.
- >>
- >
- >
- >I think/hope that the whole point of my original post was the there was no way
- >to change the settings (i.e., enable and disable) on that new card. If there
- >was a way, i would disable the ide on the card (that's what i was looking for,
- >for quite a while before i wrote the post). Yes, it seems to imply that it
- >can be disabled. I agree it seems that way. That's the problem though.
- >So, thanks anyway.
-
- Most ("MOST") of the multifunction cards available today allow full enable/
- disable of all the functions on the card (commonly: 2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game,
- IDE, and floppy). I've seen a couple of older cards that do not allow full
- control. Sounds like you want only the serial ports....take the card back to
- the place you bought it and ask them to jumper it for serial port support only...
- if they can't disable all the other functions, exchange it or get a refund.
- ps - the "IDE LED" is a connector for you to attach your front panel hard drive
- access LED cable if you are running your IDE hard drives from this controller.
- Hope this helps.
- - Richard
-