Subject: Re: Serial console problems...
To: Armen Babikyan <armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/05/1997 15:13:14
> >  I don't recomend 57600 for serious data
> >transfer in. 38400 seems ok.
>
> I wouldn't even use 38400...the transfers screw up at or around 9600, even.
> 2400 baud seems very stable, as far as i can tell. slightly more errors
> when i get to 9600, but over 19200 pushes the limit on the number of errors
> you can stand :-\
> running ppp over the device is something else, but the getty driver can't
> handle it. (from my experience, anyway, like trying to use slirp or zmodem
> file xfers)

Strange. I must admit that I use ppp whenever I care about transfering
data. I haven't used zmodem for about 18 months.

What kind of Mac and kernel (ncrscsi vs sbc) are you using? Also, are
you doing these transfers over a serial console, or just a serial
session (as the console might get extraneous messages when there are
problems, corrupting the data stream).

Take care,

Bill