Re: zilog 8530 SCC based cards

Klaus Kudielka (kudielka@crl.go.jp)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:47:40 +0900


Joerg Reuter wrote:
> At least the DIL packaged Z8530 varients are pin compatible. But the
> 85230 isn't worth the price (EUR 16 I think). And the orginal 8530 seems
> to be out of production.

Well, the Z85230 has one significant improvement: larger FIFO. Without that, I
wouldn't be able to run 56kbps in interrupt mode. I can't use DMA due to that
damned write cycle timing incompatibility with my PCI/ISA bridge - sometimes the
transmitted frames are corrupt.

I replaced the Z85C30 of my PI2 with a Z85230 - no problem whatsoever.

-Klaus

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