From: hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: Re: Character loss is only less frequent now, not gone. Date: 25 Jul 1992 18:50:10 GMT
gt7080a@prism.gatech.EDU (Nathan I. Laredo) writes:
>Just when I thought all the serial problems were gone with
>the new irq routines, once I downloaded a large enough file
>I found the errors were still there, only now less frequently.
If you're using 0.96cpl2, I agree. I still see problems with SLIP.
There's no reason to expect SLIP to be different than any other
program that uses the serial line. I posted some patches that are
sufficient to eliminate the loss for me. Linus sent me back his
version of them, which I presume will be in pl3. His version works
fine for me. However a drop once every couple of minutes may not be a
serial problem at all. It may be interference from the disk code, or
even a real line error. I'm not sure it's realistic to expect
absolutely zero errors.