bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh) (08/20/90)
The place where I am employed has an Altos Series 2000. We constantly have
problems on the ports configured for modems. They work great for a while, but
then decide to start hanging. They usually hang after getting a "bad" connect.
After they are hung there is no way that I have found to unhang them. They act
like the the device driver is hung somewhere in the kernel. I have tried just
about everything from software (e.g. disable/enable, stty, xtty, etc.) to
hardware (i.e. manually toggling signals). This is VERY frustrating! I am
under the belief that Altos has written *junk* tty device drivers! If I am
wrong or someone out there knows what the problem is, I would be forever
grateful to be informed. If it is the device driver that is the problem, does
anyone know where source to one can be obtained for Unix System V. I need to
try something.
Thanks for any information or help!!!
Bruce
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*NOTE*: Please do not use bruce@bmhalh.UUCP -- I'm not registered yet.ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) (08/30/90)
In article <25@bmhalh.UUCP> bruce@bmhalh.UUCP (Bruce M. Himebaugh) writes: >The place where I am employed has an Altos Series 2000. We constantly have > [ problem with Altos 2000 serial ports ... ] Can you describe your setup? Are you having problems with serial ports on an SIO board? An MDC board? An ACPA board? Through a TCU? What release of the operating system are you running (5.3bT0, 5.3bT1, 5.3dT0, 5.3dT1, 5.3dT2, 5.3dT3)? We had some serial I/O related problems on the 2000 in the early releases of the OS but they have since been fixed. If you are running an older release I suggest getting a patch from us or upgrading your operating system to the current version (Altos System V version 5.3dT3). -Ti -- Ti Kan \\\ vorsprung durch technik! \\\ Internet: ti@altos.com /// \\\ UUCP: ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!ti ////////\