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RE: Extra serial ports


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  • Subject: RE: Extra serial ports
  • From: "Dan Hoehnen" <dhoehnen@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 07:17:41 -0400
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>   >Does anyone know the easiest and cheapest way to add extra
>   >serial ports to a PC?
>
> I have added an extra card in my machine that adds two more serial
ports.
> However I can only get one to work (I have run out of IRQs on my
server).
>
> I would love one of these cards http://www.byterunner.com/ as
> they only need
> 1 IRQ for 4, 8 or more ports and they have Win2000 drivers.  However
they
> are expensive!
>
> Anyone any experience of these cards or an equivalent available in the
UK=
?

I use an 8 port ISA card from ByteRunner.  All 8 ports share IRQ 9.  That
card, combined with the 2 serial ports on the motherboard, gives me 10
serial ports on my server.  I usually have 5 or 6 in use.  This is on a
Win95 pc.

Dan



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