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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:12:12 -0400
- From: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: serial ports at >4800 baud?
- In-Reply-To: <0eR3UD200VsnQrw1om@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > I seem to remember reading a post here maybe a year ago about the chip
- > driving the serial line having only a 1 character buffer, but that it
- > was pin compatible with one with a 16 character buffer. Or was that
- > about the 4 port serial card?
-
- The UART chip with the 16 character buffer is the NS16450. The two 4
- port serial cards I have all have these chips. I don't know what the
- 1 character buffer UART chip number is, but I wasn't able to find any
- NS16450's on the visible side of the tower model motherboard.
-
- I run SLIP at 19.2kbaud, but I use a different type of SLIP server
- than the annex. Even using the NS16450, I get lots of overruns and
- dropped characters. Occasionally the serial driver just stops sending
- out characters. I modified the serial driver to not notify me about
- overruns and to trigger at 4 characters (instead of 14), but it's
- still losing.
-
- I wasn't able to find any obvious problems with the serial driver's
- code, so I suspect the machine is taking an inordinate amount of time
- servicing higher-priority interrupts. Then again, I have no real
- information about what is going on.
-
- In general, I'd have to say the RT makes a poor SLIP server.
-
- _.John
-