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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!mala.bc.ca!oneb!hakatac!rthomas
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: 3b2 EPORTS device driver bugs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan05.044408.24066@hakatac.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: rthomas@hakatac.almanac.bc.ca (Robert N Thomas)
- Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 04:44:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.062531.19906@robohack.UUCP>
- Organization: Sir HackAlot's Castle BBS, Port Alberni, B.C., Canada
- Lines: 82
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- In article <1993Jan4.062531.19906@robohack.UUCP> woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) writes:
- >However, as some of you may recall, I posted a note about a problem
- >which began to plague my Hayes 2400 and Telebit T-1000 some time ago.
- >
- >The symptoms were a hung modem, and on the Hayes, the appearance of
- >RD, SD, TR, and MR being on continuously.
-
- Ah yes, the olde RD/SD light up forever problem.. Greg, try
- setting setting your modems to power on default to ATE0Q1.. This
- will eliminate the SD/RD light problem.. You also want the modem to
- hang up and RESET when the DTR line drops...
-
- The next thing is in your DIALERS entries, begin these with
- ATE1Q0.. Failure to do this in your DIALERS file will cause all outgoing
- UUCP and CU calls to fail..
-
- >Since I'm too poor to afford a fancy RS-232 protocol analyser, or even
- >a nice logic analyser, and my multi-channel scope is dead, I had no
- >idea what was actually happening to the ports.
-
- The problem I saw here was a basic DATA FEEDBACK LOOP. Any character
- coming from the 3B2 hitting the modem, which in turns (ATE1) echos this
- character back to the 3B2.. The 3B2 echos the character back to the MODEM
- (3B2 is a FULL DUPLEX machine), and then the modem Re-ECHOing the character
- back to the 3B2 (ATE1 setting) and round and round it goes...
-
- Hence the modems SD/RD lights stay ON..
-
- >The only solution to this lockup is to either cycle the power on the
- >affected modem, or to re-pump the firmware to the EPORTS card.
-
- Yup, re-pump of firmware would temporarily cause the EPORTS card not
- to echo data, hence FEEDBACK loop stops.. Cycling power on the modem, causes
- simular effect...
-
- >Eventually I discovered that running the modems with DCD in what I
- >call "interrupt" mode (i.e. S131=3 on the T1000, or AT&C3 on other
- >conventional modems) effectively solved the problem. (The Hayes
- >SmartModem 2400 couldn't do this, but since I only use it to dial out,
- >I can use AT&C0 for it.)
-
- Yup.. You got it, this is what I refer to a 3B2 friendly MODEM.. I do
- the exact same thing here as well (ATS131=3 for my TB2000 modem). For my
- US Robotics HST modem, it cannot PULSE the Carrier Detect line, rather,
- it PULSES the Data Set Ready (DSR) line { AT&S1S24=250 } so I made a special
- connector for the HST which connects the HST's DSR line to the 3B2's carrier
- detect line (CD).. Works great, same result...
-
- In otherwords greg, see if there is some other signal that you can PULSE
- on hangup, and use it for the 3B2's Carrier detect instead!
-
- >My original single-entry dialer had not used '\m', but since this is
- >the secret to having cu(1) say "disconnected" when the modem drops
- >DCD, I put it back in the dialer sequence.
-
- My system does not use \m, because when the modems PULSE the CD line,
- the 3B2 say's DISCONNECTED..
-
- >Since that time, every (successful?) call out results in a subsequent
- >(but random?) series of locked up modems. Eventually the frequency of
- >lock-ups is reduced. (So I've again removed the clocaloff invocation,
- >and have gone back to ensuring I use '~.' to end calls).
-
- The modem PULSING the 3B2's CD line results in a nice proper
- disconnect.. If the remote system drops me, or if the 3B2 drops the line,
- makes no diference here...
-
- > Does anyone have access to source for the EPORTS drivers
- >and firmware, and perhaps the ability to get this fixed and release
- >the fix? While you're at it, could the hardware flow control be fixed
- >such that it can be permanently enabled at boot time for a given port?
-
- I know whatche mean about the hardware flow control hastle.. While
- your at it Santa, could to fix the drivers so the XON/XOFF and HFC can
- both be enabled at the same time??? Would be nice, and thanks.. Well,
- I don't know if that helps you all the much Greg, you have an idea of
- what I do here to get by..
-
-
- Cheers...
-
- ---- Robb ----
-