>> >The serial card is more interesting. It's a "SUNW,spif", according to
>> >OpenBoot, and is rumoured to have eight serial interfaces on it. Looking
>> >at the card, there's a Cirrus Logic chip and lots of what look like line
>> >driver chips leading to a Socket With Billions of Pins.
>> 
>Hope you have the break out box and cable for it... Several cards I've seen
>for sale on the net are missing them *sigh*

it came with the cable (thank god), so i'm good to go.  i've also
verified that it works under solaris, so i'm not *too* worried about
broken hardware.  :)

>> it sounds a little like a serial card i've got.  mine identifies
>> itself as a csfour, is made by aurora technologies, and has a cd2401
>> for the four serial ports.  who makes yours?
>> 
>Might be close, might not.  Spif is a Sun (OEM'd?) card based on an old
>CD180 chip (not cd1800), and has a weird way of handling DTR.  Either way,
>a driver already exists for this in OpenBSD (sys/arch/sparc/dev/spif*).
>Would be easy enough to port it I suspect.  The only thing that doesn't
>work is the parallel port, and that's partly out of laziness on my part.

oh, really?   hmm...i think i'll go have a look at that.  :)

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