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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2006 14:13:08 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Odd RS232 problem
Message-ID:  <200605131413.17020.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Hi,
I am trying to talk to a high voltage power supply unit we're using at work,
it uses RS232 and you can read back current, voltage, faults, etc..

What I have seems to work fine except that occassionally I get junk read ba=
ck,
 strangely it appears the longer my program runs the more often I see corru=
pt data.

The program is written in Tcl and I'm using version 8.4, I have a test PC h=
ere which
is quite old (FreeBSD 4.mumble, Tcl 8.2) and it never sees any problems. I =
am soon
going to try an identical system to the one failing (6.0-STABLE)

It's possible it could be the Tcl interpreter getting corrupted but IMO it'=
s a very
odd manifestation if so..

The serial card in it is..
puc0: <Dolphin Peripherals 4036> port 0x9400-0x941f irq 18 at device 13.0 o=
n pci0
sio4: <Dolphin Peripherals 4036> on puc0
sio4: type 16550A
sio4: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode
sio5: <Dolphin Peripherals 4036> on puc0
sio5: type 16550A
sio5: unable to activate interrupt in fast mode - using normal mode

So, apart from the actual program code everything else is different :)
(Hopefully my next test will reduce the variable space a lot..)

Any sugestions most welcome.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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