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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!cryton.demon.co.uk!altman
- Subject: Re: A410/1 serial port: repair or replace?
- Distribution: world
- References: <1993Jan8.153258.23992@spider.co.uk>
- Organization: The Serial Port
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:24:17 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan8.153258.23992@spider.co.uk> stuartb@spider.co.uk writes:
-
- >The serial port on my A410/1 simply refuses to send data anymore.
- >(it was working, and now it ain't). I've checked out the cable, and
- >attempted to do a back-to-back, with no joy.
- >
- >So, rather than spending mega-$$$ on getting my machine repaired (and
- >worse, being without it for ages), I was wondering:
- >
- >a) About a year ago someone posted saying they had ended up socketing one
- > of the serial related chips because it failed so regularly - if anyone
- > has the details then I'd like to check this out, please.
- Can't remember the exact chip, but would most likely be the serial driver,
- 25LS32 (?) possibly. Look near the serial connector!
-
- >
- >b) Can anyone tell me if the Serial Port twin-serial card has
- > software to allow one port to behave transparently as if it were
- > the internal port? I'm very tempted to buy this card for two
- > new serial ports that work, rather than have the broken
- > one repaired for quite probably a similar amount of money...
- Nope, sorry it doesn't. The II card which did a similar thing doesn't work
- like that with Risc OS 3.1 so they're having to take the 'transparent' mode
- out. Hopefully everyone will support the modular serial driver spec anyway
- :-)
-
- Hugo
-
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