Startech 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART

MX31895 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART
MX31895 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART MX31895 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART MX31895 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART MX31895 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART

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Average Rating: 3.3 / 5 With 3 Customer Reviews

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Saturday, May 3, 2014
By: Pavel
From: Calgary

Good card

Strengths:

Serial ports individually configurable to operate in either RS-232, RS-422, or RS-485 modes via stock drivers. Serial ports can be individually configured using HW jumpers to enable +5V, +12V, or disable DC power output on pin 9 of the DB9 connector. Works on Windows 8.1 64-bit. Low profile brackets PCI-Express

Weaknesses:

installation manual does not say that you must install the driver before adding the hardware. If you do otherwise you will get a blue screen. A newer driver is available on StarTech website.

Additional Comments:

Good features, Works for me under Windows 8.1 (64-bit).
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
By: Andrew
From: Calgary

I'd order something somewhere else..

Strengths:

It has low profile brackets and full height brackets. It works when powered by 4pin molex.

Weaknesses:

If you don't have a 4 pin molex power connector the printer port on this card is useless. So, on top of spending the $ on this a power splitter is required to go from Sata to Sata/Molex .... It's a shame at this time MemX doesn't stock any other low profile parallel Cards. The lava ones work quite well.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
By: James T Snell
From: Calgary

Works for me

Strengths:

Works out of the box on Linux. Modern PCIE makes it somewhat future-proof. 16550 UART is very very well known.

Weaknesses:

Seems really really expensive to me.

Additional Comments:

I got this card for a fairly commercial application and I was pleased that it worked out of the box on Ubuntu Linux 12.04. I expect it'll work with any OS, as the UART is super standard. The price just seems really really steep to me, hence the 4/5 and not 5/5.
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