
Serial Solutions Range Product
Manual
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/S buffer Set size of all buffers in bytes, buffer is rounded to the nearest power of 2 and must be a
decimal number in the range 32 to 32768. For any serial port opened two buffers of size buffer are
allocated, one for input and the other for output.
/H hardware handshake selects which hardware handshake type to use on the specified ports. This
is used in the following manner: /H range, hs where range specifies the COM port or ports and hs
selects handshake type.
Handshake types available are:
Type 0 RS232 DTR/CTS – The PC only transmits when CTS is input true. When the PC is able to
receive its sets DTR output true. The DSR and DCD inputs are ignored. The RTS output
line is set true in case the external serial device needs a true signal.
Type 4 3 Wire Handshake – Really no handshake at all since the PC transmits irrespective of the
handshake lines. The 3 wires are TxD, RxD and Ground, no other lines are required. Thus
the CTS, DSR and DCD inputs are ignored. The RTS and DTR output line is set true just in
case the external serial device needs a true signal.
Configuring and Installing NEWCOM.SYS
To load the Serial Solutions for DOS device driver an entry needs to be added to the CONFIG.SYS file. Any
simple test editor, EDIT for example, can edit the CONFIG.SYS file. The installation procedure given below
is for a PCI Lynx 8 port RS232 as COM5-COM12
The parameter required by the NEWCOM.SYS follows:
Port Address
/A5-8, 0140
COM ports 5, 6, 7 and 8 are defined with an I/O address range that begins at 0140h and all subsequent
ports have an I/O address that is 8 higher than the previous i.e. if COM5 has an address of 0140h, then
COM6 will have an address of 0148h, COM7 an address of 0150h etc.
PCI Lynx 8 port RS232 Users: /A5-12,0140
SISR, IRC, Range.
/L 0104,11,5-8
0104h is the i/o address SISR, 11 is the IRQ and since the COM port range is COM5 – COM 8 range is
entered as 5-8
PCI Lynx 8 port RS232 Users: /L 0104,11,5-12
Number Buffer.
/B8
8 buffers are defined, though only four ports are in use – this is because buffers in DOS are
assigned in a sequential order from COM1. Since the PCI Quad RS232 has been assigned COM port
values of 5 to 8, all preceding COM ports, must have buffers assigned to them also.
PCI Lynx 8 port RS232 Users: /B12
Buffer Size
/S512
Buffer size set to 512 bytes.
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