Linux-Hams archive - June 1999: Re: New SCC card design

Re: New SCC card design

Mike Murphree (qoxpfrik.wdkhvqdw@kswo.com)
Thu, 03 Jun 1999 17:13:00 GMT

>I've been looking into designing a new SCC card for packet
>and making the PCB masks freely available on the 'net.
>I've currently got a USCC and a S5SCC card and I've had
>a good look at how each of them work. I feel that a PCI
>based card is beyond my capabilities so I'm talking ISA!

That's a shame since putting an ISA-based SCC card into
a PC these days is next to impossible since you have to find
spare interrupt and DMA channels for it. A PCI card with
bus-master DMA would be great and might even work in the
new PowerMacs (horrors!).

73
Mike N4CNW (ex-logic designer, now rocket scientist or so
they tell me...)

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