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- From: "Albert P. Belle Isle" <belleisl@cerberus-sys.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.winsock.trumpet,alt.winsock,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Frame Check Errors - Cured with a Screwdriver?
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:26:18 -0500
- Organization: Cerberus Systems, Inc.
- Message-ID: <314ADD9A.224@cerberus-sys.com>
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- Mike Casswell wrote:
- >
- > I had very great problems with frame check errors, which I could not
- > get rid of even after much study of Al's FAQ etc.
- >
- > (I do not regret the time spent, though, I now have much more idea of
- > how it all works and what's going on. Thanks to APBI and to the
- > authors of all the resources linked to his FAQ).
- >
- > Another strange symptom was the occasional appearance on the TWinsock
- > screen of 'garbage'. All possible ASCII characters plus system beeps,
- > at rates which varied from a few characters per second up to a mad
- > scroll. This would interfere with logon, and cause the script to
- > abort.
- >
- > I now believe that all this was down to noise - and local noise at
- > that. I went all round the house, starting from the telecom line
- > entry, and checked/remade all the connections.
- >
- > Since then (touching several wooden objects, including head) I've had
- > no further problems. The case is not proven, but circumstance suggests
- > that the time would be well spent by anyone with similar symptoms.
- >
- > So, lots of errors caused by .... lots of errors!
- >
- > One final point, after my reading of Al and others, I am still not
- > clear exactly what is/is not bypassed by an internal modem. Does the
- > modem pick up everything from the parallel bus, thereby making all
- > serial port settings and settings (other than address) irrelevant, or
- > does it pick up part way down the serial port system? If so, at what
- > point?
- >
- > I would be very grateful for any advice on this.
- >
- > Thanks
- >
- > Mike
- >
- >
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Mike Casswell Leek, Staffordshire, England
- >
- > mike@casswell.u-net.com and often @ The Wellington Inn
-
- Mike:
-
- Congratulations on a great job of focusing on the fundamentals, by analyzing the
- details of your data link layer. Too often we forget that software must have hardware
- on which to run, RS232 signals must have wires, and modems must have phone lines.
-
- The com port address (on your ISA bus) is supposed point to the parallel (byte) end of
- a UART function. That UART can be a chip on a serial card whose serial (bit) end is
- connected to an RS232 driver; a cell in an integrated circuit on your motherboard; a
- firmware function on an internal modem card; or a subroutine in a software driver in
- RAM for a parallel port modem.
-
- If that one-byte register is backed-up by 15 more in a FIFO, your CPU can afford to be
- distracted for longer by all the other peripherals and programs clamoring for
- attention, and still respond to com IRQs in time to avoid overruns by a modem that
- believed your com port unloading rate setting.
-
- Regards,
-
- Al
-
-
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