On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:27, Simon Bland wrote: > Being that it's new hardware (AMD XP 2200+), I find it hard to believe > that it wouldn't be able to keep up with a serial port, but if there was > some way I could test the hardware to find if and what would be causing > that sorta problem, that'd be very appreciated.
The machine is broken. Every machine I've used apart from my first 386 has been able to handle such things without any need for any hdparm or irqtune parameters. Let me guess, you've got one of those cheap internal modems? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
