[rescue] Serial ports [was Parallel ports [was Re: Slightly OT: ?Bad Cap Saga]]

[Richard]

In article <af8bb5ba0808211533r1aa3cc35gea159352bb82b162 at mail.gmail.com>,
    "Eric Railine" <erailine at gmail.com>  writes:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> >
> > On what platform? [...]
> 
> Windows for this particular set of symptoms, but I've seen random
> flakiness under Linux as well.  I haven't tried a USB serial adapter
> under Mac so I can't speak for that.  I agree that it's a software
> issue - my only point is that actually using a USB adapter for serial
> is more problematic than using a regular serial port, at least IME
> (and, apparently, Andrew's).

What were the symptoms?  Data dropped at high rates?
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