Re: Disapearing /dev/tty0's
On Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 08:43:26PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:28:18 MDT "Chad D. Zimmerman"
> (chad@dabcc-www.nmsu.edu) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> >
> > > Plug-and-Pray ?
Also of concern was that tty01 seemed to be a 16550A first time,
and only a 16450 when tty03 disappeared. (And when did these
stop being called ttySx?)
> Good boy ! :-) Me too.
> Ok, so, from boot to boot, serial devices come and go.
> No I have no clue. If it were that the devices are there at boot and
> then diseappear, I had an explanation, but if in the same conditions
> the devices come and go from boot to boot, no idea. Sorry.
Some old AMI BIOS systems had a bug in their serial detection;
as I recall, a port would not be detected if the FIFO was
already enabled. I wouldn't expect it to affect Linux though.
Hamish
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