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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Subject: Re: High speed modem attached to 3500
- Message-ID: <5aa90e96.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner)
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- Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project
- References: <sasblc.714248243@ddt>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:03:46 GMT
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- In article <sasblc.714248243@ddt>, sasblc@unx.sas.com (Brad Chisholm) writes:
-
- I've been testing a v.32bis modem attached to the serial port of my 3500.
- Unfortunately, for speeds above 9600 baud, I seem to be losing data. I
- understand that PC's often need an upgraded UART to handle high speeds,
- but would such a thing be possible for my Apollo?
-
- The dn3500 uses a pair of Signetics 2681s for the serial ports. These have
- no fifo. I don't know if there is an equivalent pin-compatible chip with
- fifo like the 16550 used in IBM PCs, but even if there is, you would have to
- re-write the device driver to handle it.
-
- I find that my dn3500 keeps up at 9600, but not at 19200. The buffer space
- in the kernel is quite small, a couple hundred bytes, but the hardware flow
- control works well. Use it.
-
- Since the Apollos have
- an AT bus, could I add an internal modem that has its own UART, or would
- I need a new serial driver also (I think there's a PD driver called FAS,
- anyone know anything about this?)
-
- You could write a driver using gpio. I'd be interested in hearing of such a
- free (nothing is PD these days) driver.
-