Re: Second Serial Port on Multia

Andrew J. Hutton (ajh@sparta.achilles.net)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 01:24:46 +0500

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>
> > Can someone please tell me where the second
> > serial port on my multia is???
>
> It may sound silly, but the second serial port is presented on the
> same 25-pin connector as the first port. The trick is that it uses
> rarely used pins and you need to make up a splitter cable to use
> both ports. This is the infamous "Y-Cable" - near unobtainable, but
> check out http://www.annex.co.uk/systems/udbycabl.html if you want
> to make up your own cable...

I believe the Sparc standard is being used, therefore any Sparc A/B Cable should work. I would appreciate it if someone could confirm this, I've misplaced mine...

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