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.