Help needed setting up serial card

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Does anyone have any information that might be helpful in setting up the
following Sun High Speed Serial Interface HSI/S ? A picture is shown
below.
http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~davek/top-of-serial-card.jpg
The Sun part number is 501-1725. The card has an S-bus connector and a
96-pin high-density serial connector.

Does anyone have a manual I could borrow/copy/buy ? Does it need drivers
that are not part of Solaris 7, or does Solaris 7 include the drivers ?
Does anyone know the names of the device files ?

Any help appreciated. I would like to run my 56 k modem above the normal
38,400 bps limit on my SS20 serial port. This card (which I bought as a
"pull") should allow me to do it (I hope), but so far I've been unable
to find any information about the card.

Does anyone have a plug/cable/patchbord that will fit the 96-way
connector ?

I do have the pin-out of the 96 way connector and might as a last resort
wire a 25 pin DIN to the PCB. However, without some documentation, there
is little point sorting the hardware out.

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Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D.
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Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
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[Charles Combs]

The last time I saw this card was about 3 years ago. It looks like a multi-port
serial card manufactured by Aurora. The connector attaches to a break-out panel
to allow up to 16 RS-232C connections. I believe the interface between the card
and the break-out panel is RS-442.

As for the driver's, when I last installed the card, there was a cd from Aurora
that contained the drivers. Sun did not provide drivers at that time. I don't
know if Sun has drivers for it, or not. The best advise would be to check out
the Sun site and/or ask your local Sun rep.

It's a preety neat card. Did just what it was suppose to with minimal
configuration. We used it to provide several real-time news feeds into the
Barron's and WSJIE web-sites. Never really over-loaded the card, we only had 4 -
6 feeads, but no problems at that level.

The card was sold with different capabilities, primarily in the number of ports
supported and different size break-out panels.

Hop this helps.

"Dr. David Kirkby" wrote:

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