Re: arm build hardware
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:40 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Sander wrote:
> > Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they?
> >
> > FWIW, I use a handful of
> > http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've
> > never failed me, with arm and x86 as both source and destination. I have
> > an openrd-client (7x usb) in use as a consoleserver.
>
> Well that's pl2303 based. Those are not known to be the most reliable
> things around (and some of the comments in the linux driver are not
> encouraging either).
>
> For a reliable working USB serial adapter, something based on FTDI tends
> to just work.
That is my experience too, even from the days my work PC was Windows.
> Most are PL2303 based though since it is much cheaper.
> And of course they almost never tell you what they are based on.
That's why I always buy from a place that explicitly advertises as FTDI
based...
http://www.usbnow.co.uk/p48/USB_to_RS232_with_FTDI_Chipset_(1.8M_Cable)/product_info.html
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Tixy
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