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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: serial problems
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 23:53:17
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- Amigaboy (Amigaboy@shoestring.opus-networx.com) wrote:
- : > I have an A2000 w/OS3.1, a 28800 modem and an 040. I seem to be
- : > having some problems with my serial port. Every once in a while
- : > I'll get a Serial I/O error No 6 (hardware overrun).
- : >
- : > Does anyone know what causes this and how it might be fixed?
- :
- : Are you using the default serial device i.e. serial.device?
- : If so, try using one of the PD ones such as v34serial.device or
- : USRSerial.device available on aminet. Serial.device is somewhat
- : dated and is prone to errors at high speed. I'm currently using
- : USRSerial.device with my 14.4 modem and haven't experienced any probs.
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- serial.device only has problems on slow machines. This is a hardware problem.
-
- -- Mat.
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