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From: pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Need Specialix Drivers for RC32[34]0 -- Urgent Please
Keywords: specialix bugs support
Message-ID: <8313@dmshq.mn.org>
Date: 18 Dec 90 05:14:57 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.152013.8360@oct1.UUCP> <1990Dec14.122405.4744@specialix.co.uk>
Reply-To: pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio)
Organization: Death Fleet Command
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In article <1990Dec14.122405.4744@specialix.co.uk> jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes:
>mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason) writes:
>>In front of me I have a [CDC] RC3230, a Specialix AT bus host adaptor
>>and 32 Specialix ports, but no driver for the Specialix!!  For some reason,
>>our shipment has been totally FOOBAR'ed (I'm on the east side of the
>>Atlantic), and the soonest I can get a driver is about 4 weeks.  But I
>>must install, with the ports, and hence I am in urgent need of a set of
>>drivers to make the ports go.
>
>
>You should be able to get a driver from your local MIPS office
>or from support@specialix.co.uk.    The 3230 driver is not the
>same as the 3240 (same source tree but a compile time switch
>because the AT bus is a bit radical in the 3230).  

This isn't necessarily oriented towards getting a copy of the driver,
but rather my query is directed towards getting some type of update on
the status of the Specialix driver and the current problems being
reported with it under RISCos 4.51.  

Several clients that I have been working with lately have been
complaining of hanging terminals, terminals dropping baud rates
unexpectantly, problems with serial printers attached to specialix
ports dropping the tail end of output, etc.  Customer support has been
notified of the problem (several times), but no real progress seems to
be occuring.  It's ironic, but MIPS had just seemed to have gotten the
driver fairly stable before 4.51 rolled around.

What's the status guys?  These same clients have also informed me that
the support they are receiving has been rather poor and it has taken
many calls to get even a reasonable workaround and/or answer.  Could
someone please send me some email updating me on the current status of the
driver so that I may pass it along to them?  

Thanks for you help.

 -Bob