Hello Bat!
 JM>> i have inherited an stb 4 port serial card, it has a startech
 JM>> 16650 vlsi chip on it and jumper for irq and address for each
 JM>> of the 4 serial ports. it has fifo caching and those funny
 JM>> ps/2ish ports on the backplane. can somebody who has one help
 JM>> me with where to get the cable for this card, more importantlu
 JM>> where i can get dicumantaion/drivers etc for it.
 JM>> i believe thatt this is the serial card that was being
 JM>> advertised by steve winters of christian fidonet conference
 JM>> fame some years ago.
 JM>> is id possible to set this up on an os/2 box ? how, currently
 JM>> os/2 sees a serial cards but when it comes to connecting a
 JM>> modem os/2 complain's about the card not being thier, that is
 JM>> were os/2 thinks it is .. thes card cam out od a ms win95 box
 JM>> that ran binkleyterm (not very reliably, it was one of my
 JM>> downlinks)
 > I enjoyed your exchange on mobo's with Linn, so I thought I'd see
 > what I could do to help you. {^; The bad news is: that on the IBM
 > Device Driver site, I could find no support for this board.
This board works fine with COM.SYS if you use a different IRQ for
each port.  If you need to put more than 1 port on an IRQ then go
with SIO.  I run all 4 ports on a single IRQ here with SIO.
Cheers,
Nicky
Internet: nrmorrow@cybertron.com
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