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19 years ago

byteblaster not showing up in hardware

Hi, I need help with my maxII eval board. When I go to program and verify, the byteblaster does not show up. I have a pci-parallel card in my dell computer and I have added that hardware to my ...
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16 years ago

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This is an old problem with a lot of folklore and few answers.

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Does any one know - is it simply that the ByteBlaster xx driver needs to see the device at the legacy I/O address?

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Among the few answers, I did at least answer this particular question. Yes if seen it working with a non-legay address (0x8400../0x8800..) and a Netmos PCI adapter.

Regarding wasting money -why not using a cheap Terasic USB Blaster?