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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: silo errors in netbsd 0.9 (using the com driver) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 15:57:56 GMT Message-ID: <CL81oL.6y@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <2iukv9$h74@cae.cad.gatech.edu> <davidb.760952321@otto> Keywords: silo com comm Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 19 In <davidb.760952321@otto> davidb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Burren [Athos]) writes: >In <2iukv9$h74@cae.cad.gatech.edu> sunman@cad.gatech.edu (Sunil A. Bhagia) writes: >> I am running netbsd 0.9 and have a urt16550a on my internal modem >> and well when i go to use the modem i work find a first but soon >> there after developes silo over flows. >The only thing that springs to mind is the name "urt16550a". I seem to >recall some weird problem with NS16550A chips, and certainly all the 550s >I've ever used are NS16550AFs (note the "AF"). There are no "weird problems" with the NS16550A chips that. The NS16550 (without the 'A') had essentially non-functional FIFOs but were otherwise fine. Anyway, the silo overflows are more or less normal even with FIFOs. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606137 Es genuegt nicht, keine Gedanken zu haben; man muss auch unfaehig sein, sie auszudruecken. - Karl Kraus