Subject: Re: Falcon serial ports
To: chris_gray <ep71@bcs.org.uk>
From: Howard Chu <chu@platinum.com>
List: port-atari
Date: 04/12/1997 21:50:27
  Hi all,

  a couple of questions about i/o on a Falcon:

  1) how fast can the standard serial port (/dev/mdm02) be driven?
     Currently I'm using 19200 bps, but I have dreams of ISDN ...

  2) is there a driver for the `LAN` port, and if so what protocol(s)
     does it support?  More dreams, this time involving a transputer ...

  3) where in the freindly documentation could I have found this out 
     for myself?  ;>

Both of the ports are driven by a Zilog 8530 SCC. You can set the clock
dividers to go up to 230.4kbps if you want. I think that's probably the
upper limit. I haven't looked at any ISDN modems, do they do speed matching
for you? (at 2B you're going 128kbps, and most serial ports do 115.2k...)
  -- Howard