Re: 735/125 serial console problems
Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:31:18AM -0700, Christian Suder wrote:
> > Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > What are you running minicom on? If it's a 386 using an old UART with no
> > > FIFO then I'd suggest it just couldn't cope with bursts of data at 9.6K.
> > > Not very likely though. When you type things at the BOOT_ADMIN prompt
> > > is it all echoed back properly?
> >
> > No, the UART is certainly not a problem at 9600 bit/s.
>
> Well, if whatever is servicing the UART chooses to disable interrupts
> for several milliseconds at a time, then you could get this effect.
True, that is the theory - my empirical answer is that I have never seen any
issues running 9600 bit/s even on a windooze machine. I certainly was using
14.4k modems with 19200 bit./s setting on the serial port years ago with both
M$oft and linux (when it came on a stack of 5 1/4" diskettes... ;-)
C,
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