Did you ever trace those pins? They go nowhere! After many years in the business, I have never found any equipment where ALL these were implemented for anything.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lazar Fleysher) writes: > Hello everybody! > > Most probably this is a strange question but I thought maybe some one > knows the answer... > > As far as I understand a regular 25 pin serial port has 2 serial ports > built-in on one chip. All serial lines which are needed for most > communitcation devices (TxD RTS DTR RxD CTS DSR DCD RI) are doubled! > The secondary ones are almost completely specified by the RS232 > (STxD SRTS SDTR SRxD SCTS SDCD) one would need to choose SDSR and SRI and > I think that is possible with some pins left. > > With that, it implyes that it is possible to operate 2 serial devices on a > single serial port prived there is driver support for it and one will have > to build a cable-splitter to split primary and secondary serial lines to > go to separate devices. > > That are your thoughts? > > Are there any resticions in the way the data is stored inside the serial > port itself? -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 *
