On Thursday 28 May 2020 12:33:54 Steve McIntyre wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Sunday 17 May 2020 11:56:51 John Conover wrote: > >> I have two Prolific PL2303 devices on a machine. The output of > >> lsusb is identical for both, including iSerial of 0, for both. > >> > >> Is there any way of doing udev SYMLINK+ with these devices? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> John > > > >TBT John, the best place for them is a drawer, to be used only long > >enough to obtain FDTI devices for regular use. They goto sleep, (or > >something) and you have to knock several times to re-awaken them, > > losing data in the process. Strange disconnects will plague your > > system. BTDT, used foul language, they slept right thru my tantrums. > > FDTI stuff just works. > > Nod. I used to use a lot of the pl2303 adapters, as they were cheap - > a couple of dollars each in quantity. But they were *so* unreliable > that I abandoned them. FTDI cost more, but are massively more reliable > in my experience. This is definitely a case of "you get what you pay > for".
The $2 ones were clones, and occasionally even better. I paid $40 for the first troublesome POS. Before there were clones. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
