On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:40 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Sander wrote: > > Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they? > > > > FWIW, I use a handful of > > http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've > > never failed me, with arm and x86 as both source and destination. I have > > an openrd-client (7x usb) in use as a consoleserver. > > Well that's pl2303 based. Those are not known to be the most reliable > things around (and some of the comments in the linux driver are not > encouraging either). > > For a reliable working USB serial adapter, something based on FTDI tends > to just work.
That is my experience too, even from the days my work PC was Windows. > Most are PL2303 based though since it is much cheaper. > And of course they almost never tell you what they are based on. That's why I always buy from a place that explicitly advertises as FTDI based... http://www.usbnow.co.uk/p48/USB_to_RS232_with_FTDI_Chipset_(1.8M_Cable)/product_info.html -- Tixy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1363293200.3260.2.ca...@computer5.home
