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Specialix I/O boards
Currently, it's quite hard to get Specialix drivers and installation guides. Here is some info about installing these cards.
First, check these things:
- What card?
- What bus (ISA? EISA?)
- What OS?
1. Cards
Most 4-port cards don't require any drivers. Just disable serial ports
in computer and run these 4 COMs in card. 8 port or more cards require
drivers. Some of them may not work in Windows.
2. Buses
If you have ISA, you must configure the card with jumpers. EISA is just
an ISA with configuration applied to cards with special program, usually
added to mainboard on bootable floppy. If you don't have one, try
THIS one, but it may not work on Your
mainboard. Copy it to bootable disk and run from it.
You need EISA configuration definition files. Specialix drivers (!SLX*.CFG)
are enclosed in archive and in SI-XIO driver package in utils
subdirectory.
3. OSes
If you have Windows NT or 2000, you can install cards with PortDirector
software. This is a driver for SX+, SX, XIO and SI-HOST cards.
Other OSes require their drivers. They're supplied on floppies or DD
file which is a disk image.
4. Downloads:
EISA
configuration utility
PortDirector
driver for Windows NT
PortDirector
driver for Windows NT v.1.21 Part2
PortDirector
Driver for Windows 2000. This contains manual in PDF format
Specialix
Support COPYDISK - utility to copy disk images. Don't know will it
work, copied from Support CD