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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:09:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
To:        akm@mother.sneaker.net.au, rivers@dignus.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu
Subject:   Re: sio silo overflows on a P75 @ 38400 baud?
Message-ID:  <199710281309.IAA06589@lakes.dignus.com>

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> +-----[ Thomas David Rivers ]------------------------------
> | 
> | 
> |  In the span of this 8:52 hours, though, I've only seen 3 silo
> | overflows...  So, the issue appears to be intermittent... (which
> | makes it more aggravating... :-) )
> 
> You said you thought it was 16550 clone ?
> Maybe it doesn't have the 16 byte buffer that the 16550A's have, but,
> it is pretending to be one?
> 
> This would certainly cause intermittant SILO overflows on a slowish
> box.
> 

 That's a good point - perhaps it doesn't.  This slowish box is
actually an ACER laptop.  The documentation claims a 16550; but I
kinda doubt it's a real one since this is a laptop and 16550s are
(relatively speaking) kinda large...

	- Thanks! -
	- Dave R. -



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