Subject: Needed: Antares 8-port Sbus serial driver
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: The Grey Wolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/24/1998 17:46:14
Hi, all. I have the good fortune of at least temporarily inheriting an
Antares 8-port serial card and box for 8 serial ports. This is WAY
cool since the Antares can support 38400 quite easily and I could thus
avoid overloading the silly ZS ports (though to NetBSD/sparc's credit,
I haven't seen any ring buffer overflows since I upgraded to 1.3).
If I understand correctly, I can also configure it so that it will collapse
four of the ports to run one port at 115200 which, when coupled with a
115.2 modem, would be a REAL win, or I could get at least 56K straight
through which might be even nicer.
My question is: Does anyone have a driver for this thing? I don't have
technical specs or anything for it (though I'm about to visit Antares
or do a web search for docs).
It looks like this:
============================== [date codes (last lines on chips) omitted]
| _____ _ __ __ | ITEM Description
|| || | | || | | 0 Edge-Connected chip in socket,
|| 0. ||1| |2.||3.| | 7conn x 9conn; paper label reads:
||_____||_| | || | | 0031
| _ ___ | || | | R11
| _ | | | | | || | | BE84
| |4| |5| | | |__||__| | 1 Soldered 20-pin chip; reads:
| ' |_| | 6.| | MFGR: [differential]dt
| | | | 74FCT
| |___| | 244ASO [delta]
| ____ ____ | 2 long 24-pin chip in socket; paper
|| || | | label reads: 0103 9E82
|| 7. || 8. | | 3 As #2; reads 0105 B9A5
||____||____| | 4 Soldered 16-pin chip; reads:
| | MFGR: [differential]dt
| ___ ___ | 74FCT
|| 9.| | A.| | 138SO [delta]
||___| |___| | 5 Soldered 20-pin chip; reads:
| | MFGR: [Large Italic Capital] Q
| ___ ___ | QS74FCT
|| B.| | C.| | 245ATSO
||___| |___| | 6 Metal package component; pins unknown
| | 14.7456 MHz
| SBus ENHANCED | 685-147
| ___ SERIAL-B | MADE IN JAPAN
|| D.| MADE IN SILICON VALLEY| USCC
||___| U.S.A. | 7,8 Soldered chip 11 pins all 4 edges:
| | MFGR: ZILOG
| JAMES J. LUDEMANN | Z8523010VSC
______________________________ ESCC
::::::96 pins out::::::: 9,A Soldered chip 7 pins all 4 edges:
MFGR: [Large Capital S; korea]
0138S19
B,C,D Soldered chip 7 pins all 4 edges:
MFGR: as 9,A [...Samsung?]
0138K19
I'm guessing:
- the metal package is the oscillation crystal; the oscillator
itself seems to be in a longish package next to #0 reading:
[Sine Wave in a circle, probably National Semi]: NMH0512S
- Chip 0 is a DSP chip of some sort
- Chips 2 and 3 are EEPROMS of some sort
- The Q chip is a QLogic chip
This looks like it could be a really cool addition to my system
if I can get it to work.