Startech 2S1P Native PCI Express Parallel Serial Combo Card with 16550 UART
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Saturday, May 3, 2014
By: Pavel
From: Calgary
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
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
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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