SUMMARY: What to buy for a serial port on an Ultra-10

Thanks to the (quick and knowledgable) people who helped me with this
question.

The replies that helped out the most pointed out that Ultra-10's have a
second serial connection that I can use.  This was pointed out by Russ
Poffenberger and Alex Stade.  THANKS SO MUCH!  I also received replies that
showed me where to get additional serial port information.  I have included
that information in case others are interested.  Thank you for all your
information.  I will keep it in case I need more information.  I'm sure
there are lurkers and searchers who will also profit from the information.

Here are all the replies:  (Note:  I have edited the replies deleting
greetings, signatures, and extra white space.  I also reformatted replies to
fit into my two categories.)
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First part (advising me of the second serial port)::
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Russ Poffenberger [poffen@san-jose.tt.slb.com]:
An Ultra-10 has TWO serial ports. One is a standard DB25, the other a DB9,
you
may just need a DB9 cable or adapter to use it.
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Alex Stade [alex@trdlnk.com]:
An Ultra-10 should come with two serial ports, one DB9 and one DB25.
Unless you're using both, you shouldn't need to buy any card to use two
serial ports for modems.
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Second part (advising me of hardware solutions and giving me the answer to
my question as asked)::
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Russ Poffenberger [poffen@san-jose.tt.slb.com]:
If you need more than two ports, then check out the web site
www.pcisource.com
for a comprehensive list of manufacturers that make PCI boards. I am sure
there
are some that make boards with Solaris drivers.

Another vendor is www.antares.com. Their P-0002 is a dual serial controller
for
Sun/Sparc.
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Tim Evans [tkevans@tkevans.com]:
Look for their PCI-compatibility list.
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Raby, Kenny G [Kenny.G.Raby@disney.com]:
Although I have never used one it looks like this might be what you want
(bit of an overkill maybe):

X2156A
http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=44862
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/Communication/COMM_SAI_P.html#0
100
http://sunsolve.sun.com/data/805/805-1076/pdf/805-1076-10.pdf

The systems handbook will help with things like this since they will list
various components/options:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U10/components.html
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Jay Lessert [jayl@accelerant.net]:
If you do a search on www.sun.com for "pci serial expansion", you end up
somewhere around:

http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/pci/io.html

The historical Sun vendors are Antares, Aurora & Magma, I've used
Antares and Magma myself w/no problems.  Digi has historically been a
Windows/Linux solution (and they dominate that marketplace), but they
support Sparc/Solaris also.
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Yuan Lu [lu@pgc.nrcan.gc.ca]:
We use a SUN serial Asynchronous Interface PCI Adapter called SAI/P, 
which have 8 ports. It works great for us. The part number is X2156A.
Just type SAI in the search box, you will get the result.
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John T. Douglass [douglass@anl.gov]:
I've not used them in a while but:
	http://www.auroratech.com
used to sell serial boards for Sun's (both Sbus and PCI, supported
Solaris).  They specialized in multiport boards (2, 4, 8, 16 ports).
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Scott Howard [scott@doc.net.au]:
There's an 8-port serial PCI card available.  I think the part number is
X2156A, but I could be wrong...
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thetrick@wizard.net:
www.stokely.com for modem/serial info.

you should be able to run a modem faster than 9.6 on a sun serial port.
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Juergen Waiblinger [juwa@triplestor.com]:
http://www.antares.com/peripherals/0002.htm
works fine
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-----Original Message-----
From: Boothby Don 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 3:01 PM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: What to buy for a serial port on an Ultra-10


I have an Ultra-10 which is running a program that uses a modem (at 9600bps)
to download EDI data.  The modem is in use all the time and is basically
saturated.  So, I would like to buy a serial card for the same Ultra-10 to
be used to connect up another modem and be able to transfer data to other
EDI customers simultaneously.  I have been looking for the card on the Sun
web site, but I haven't been able to find it.  Or I just don't know what to
look for.  (I'm not very hardware literate as you can probably tell by the
question.)

Can someone provide me with a place to get started looking this information
up?

Thanks for reading,
...Don Boothby
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