john@vsi.COM (John Koontz) (12/09/89)
A customer of ours has a need to hang over 80 serial ports on an AT&T
6386 (25 or 33MHz running SVR3.2) but there will probably be no more than
20 concurent users (light word processing stuff). AT&T should be shipping
their IPC1600 pretty soon, but they won't support more than 4 cards per
machine.
Does anyone have any experience with 32 (or more) port cards on 6386s?
As expected, I'm concerned about the reliability of any non-supported
card.
Thanks for any help.
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John Koontz, V-Systems, Inc. +1 714 545 6442
{attmail uunet}!vsi!john john@vsi.comasv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) (12/10/89)
In article <1203@vsi.COM> john@vsi.COM (John Koontz) writes: > >Does anyone have any experience with 32 (or more) port cards on 6386s? >As expected, I'm concerned about the reliability of any non-supported >card. No, but... I've had extremely good luck with the Equinox Megaport board. I run mine under Interactive Unix 2.0.2. Each board has 24 ports and I believe 6 boards are supported for each machine under unix. No interrupts are used either. I run a host of devices on it including fast Trailbalzer bidirectional uucp transfers with no problems. In looking at the label on the device driver floppy it says: UNIX System V/386 Device Driver Release 1.7.0 ...compatible with UNIX 3.2 form AT&T, Dell, Everex, Interactive, SCO etc. (the "etc." is theirs not mine) I got mine from Continental Computer Systems in Newington, CT. 1-203-665-1355. Equinox is at 1-305-255-3500 (they sent me to CCS). Hope this helps! (standard happy user disclaimers apply...) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | - Stan Voket, asv@gaboon - OR - ...uunet!hsi!stpstn!gaboon!asv | | Land Line: (203) 746-4489 TELEX 4996516 - | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+