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Article #11505Re: Hardware flow control under SunOS4.0 question
From: Guy Harris
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 04:50
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 04:50
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>If you set up Hardware flowcontrol on the serial lines onboard (/dev/ttya >& /dev/ttyb) youwill have no luck. I do not know if this also applies to >other serial lines. It should apply to ALM-2 lines, since they use the same chip (although I don't remember whether all ALM-2s ran all the interesting RS-232 lines to the chip or not). I don't think it applies to the ALM/ALM-1/Systech/MTI, since that uses a different chip; of course, that chip *always* provides hardware flow control and, like the Zilog chip, couples it to the "shut off the receiver when DCD drops" feature. Systech and the SunOS Systech driver got around that, as I remember, by tying DCD high and using some other line as DCD; this may mean that the problem doesn't apply to the ALM-1.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Hardware flow control under SunOS4.0 question Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <1110@auspex.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 89 04:50:53 GMT References: <8902201632.AA02908@MINNI.> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 13 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 3 Mar 89 09:16:25 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 196, message 7 of 16