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From: banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: xxxBSD with Hayes ESP cards?
Date: 4 Feb 1994 10:40:48 GMT
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hawk@clinet.fi (Marko Lamminen) writes:

>Wailer at the Gates of Dawn (banshee@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:

>: No overflows ever.  Netbsd sees it as a FIFO card (with a huge buffer).
>: No idea if native netbsd drivers for the ESP card would produce greater
>: throughput.

>	What kind of speeds you use the card for? How to define the
>	external speed? (I don't think the kernel support very high,
>	lets say 115.2k, speeds over serial?)

>	Anyone know if this is a NetBSD com driver featureor does the
>	ESP card work as easily in other 386BSD variants? (like FreeBSD)


We're using 57.6K -- see my post "Modem Stats" about our throughput.
I'm trying to get hayes to give me their programming manual.  But I think
for MOST things 57.6 is fine.  Its very seldom I see character xfers getting
near 7000 bytes/s


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