Re: Question on I/O devices

Simon Bennett (simonb++at++wormald.com.au)
Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:55:00 +1100 (EST)

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> This discussion reminds me of a question I posed a while ago, but got no
> adequate responses:
> Did anybody ever interface the Fastrak to a standard serial port (no ASO's
> please) on any of the SGI's using the hardware handshaking cable and actually
> get data from the unit with a baud rate higher than 9600? I had no luck on
> my Indigo2 and finally had to settle for the 16BIT format and 16Hz sample
> rates. I assume that with the right cable, I can exceed 9600 baud because the
> modem in the other serial port runs at 19.2K or 38.4K.

Are you using the ttyd or ttym device? Hardware handshaking only works
for the ttym devices...

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