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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: 16550 support appears buggy
- Message-ID: <9212221801.AA02283@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:29:39 GMT
- References: <9212190311.AA06638@relay1.UU.NET>
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > mfaurot@phzzzt.uucp (Michael Faurot) writes:
- >
- > > MF> [...Michael's original problem...]
- > > MF> Here's the situation. If a user calls in when the modem is connected to
- > > MF> com1fr with a 16550 UART and the user is making a connection at less
- than
- > > MF> 9,600 (ie, 2400 or 1200) characters get lost during displays.
- > >
- > > [...much debugging...]
- > >
- > > The problem, as it appears to me, is that that the async driver is somehow
- > > not fast enough responding to the RTS/CTS flow control requests from the
- > > modem when the connection to the modem is running at a speed less than 9,600
- > > and the port has a 16550 style UART.
- >
- > Yeah, well I'm puzzled. Your explanation above would make sense if the
- > machine was heavily loaded and the modem on a 16550 wasn't the only serial
- > I/O. But in the situation you describe where the modem runs fine on the
- > 16450 but not on the 16550 - I'm baffled. Again (cos I think I mentioned
- > this before) I suspect some funny behaviour of the underlying serial cards
- > themselves rather than which UART they're using. IE some sort of interrupt
- > clash or a slightly misdesigned card that has problems with higher speed
- > operation. Are you able to replace the 16450 with a 550 in the same card?
- > Testing that would be able to disprove this theory.
- >
- > Hmmm, you say it's only the slower calls. Have you verified that RTS/CTS
- > are being asserted on the ports the 16550s are on? Maybe they're cheap
- > serial cards and the designers didn't implement handshaking properly. (no
- > insult meant of your hardware buying habits).
- >
- > If that's not a solution then I'm baffled. I use a 16550AFN locked at 19200
- > to my modem here and it runs fine.
- >
- > - k
- > --
- > Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- > "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
- >
-
- This has appeared before with a customer who was "dead positive" it was not
- his modem register settings. Reset the modem with the true modem defaults
- then try it. Let me know what happens.
-
- Ed
-
- ed@mwc.com tech support - MWC
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