Subject: Re: Serial changes 1.1-current
To: John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.resort.com>
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/03/1996 22:25:38
>>>>> "John" == John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.resort.com> writes:

John> Hasn't this been tagged as a interrupt issue between the com
John> driver and the wd ide driver?  Could everyone with this problem
John> confirm or deny that they're using IDE drives?

	I'm using an IDE drive.  My system has an old 40 meg drive ask
it's only disk.  It has 8 meg of RAM, and a combo 16550/ide board.
Most of the action on the system involves NFS... except root and swap
are on the local 40 meg drive.

John> Granted I have a 1024byte FIFO, but I also run it on a 386/20
John> (an overloaded and memory-strapped 386/20 that swaps like mad)
John> with PPP at 115200 and I have zero problems with serial issues
John> even with wd drives.

	I have generally found that PPP runs much better than uucico
on the port, but I'd like to know what parameter you've changed... and
where I can apply that patch.  This machine is dedicated to running my
modems, so I don't care how much of the kernel is thown at the serial
ports and/or how hard the interupts hit the  machine.

Dave.

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