YASPP (Yet another serial port problem)
John Kennedy
johnk at opel.uu.net
Wed Dec 27 11:01:18 AEST 1989
In article <10740 at attctc.Dallas.TX.US> cassidy at attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Cassidy Lynar) writes:
> (serial device woes deleted)
Two problems come to mind:
1) Is another device (typically the first parallel port) using int 5.
This conflict would not manifest itself under dos, with its
way of doing one thing at a time.
2) Microport had a patchable bit mask that was used to write to the
8259 interrupt controller. If int 5 was not allocated as the OS was
delivered, maybe something has to happen to enable it.
The fact that you're getting a character occasionally suggests to me
that a TxRDY interrupt is being looked for, but after a timeout
the next character is sent. I can't image a serial driver that continues
to send under those conditions, but it may be some kind of a failsafe to
avoid an infinite wait in the driver. My guess would be the first, a
conflict with another device.
Or, it could be a bug in the driver :-).
John
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Second Source, Inc.
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