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- From: Richard.Town@f235.n254.z2.fidonet.org (Richard Town)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Best V34 modem for multi-modem BBS?
- Date: 28 Mar 96 19:18:05
- Organization: Barney's Rubble
- Message-ID: <e4d_9603290109@fidouk.fidonet.org>
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- -=> Quoting Paul Lowe to All <=-
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- PL> Forget trying to run 4 internal modems.
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- Comport address ranges, Zoom V34/i
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- com1 03f8-03ffh irq4
- com2 02f8-02ffh irq3
- com3 03e8-03efh irq4
- com4 02e8-02efh irq3
- com5 03e8-03efh irq2
- com6 02e8-02efh irq2
- com7 03e8-03efh irq5
- com8 02e8-02efh irq5
-
- PL>You wont be able to run a
- PL> standard modem.
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- That goes on one of the "standard" comports. Leaving three to find
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- PL> You COULD use a bus mouse, but then you've just used
- PL> up 5 internal slots!
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- Gnerally a bus mouse goes on your existing supplied i/o card, doesn't need
- an additional card
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- PL> Its a massive hassle.
-
- No it's not
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- PL> If you're serious about
- PL> runnig a BBS (with 4 modems or more) invest the bucks in a multiport
- PL> serial card....
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- That way, you can have four power supplies, four mains leads, four modems,
- four serial leads, and four boxes cluttering up your desk. Not to mention
- the extra expense externals cost, not to mention the extra i/o card
-
- As for the remaining three modems, well let's see what the excellent
- X00 has to offer:
-
- Using X00 V1.53a
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- Loaded as a Device Driver Can Support 2 Port(s)
- DESQview Pause Disabled BIOS INT 14h Emulator Enabled
- Nasty Disabled FIFOs Enabled at 15
- Receive Buffer Size = 8192 Transmit Buffer Size = 4096
- Board Enable Port = 0000 Board Enable Value = 00
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- Port 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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- Address 03F8 02F8 03E8 3228 4220 4228 5220 5228
- IRQ 4 3 9 3 3 3 3 3
- Current Baud 2400 1200 2400 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
- Current Mode 8N1 7N1 8N1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
- Locked Baud 57600 NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
- Locked Mode 8N1 NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
- FOSSIL Active YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
- Chip Type 16550A 16550A 16550A NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE
- FIFOed YES YES YES
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- Well, there's three (I'm only single node in Win3.1 during the day)
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- Or are you saying I havn't got enough bios for a fourth?
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- rgdZ
- Richard
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