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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!nic.scruz.net!boing.resort.com!banshee From: banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: xxxBSD with Hayes ESP cards? Date: 4 Feb 1994 10:40:48 GMT Organization: Santa Cruz Community Internet Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2it8nu$spp@nic.scruz.net> References: <2ibh8l$1kq@nwfocus.wa.com> <2imfbm$cq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <2is7rdINN51c@clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: boing.resort.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #0 (NOV) hawk@clinet.fi (Marko Lamminen) writes: >Wailer at the Gates of Dawn (banshee@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote: >: No overflows ever. Netbsd sees it as a FIFO card (with a huge buffer). >: No idea if native netbsd drivers for the ESP card would produce greater >: throughput. > What kind of speeds you use the card for? How to define the > external speed? (I don't think the kernel support very high, > lets say 115.2k, speeds over serial?) > Anyone know if this is a NetBSD com driver featureor does the > ESP card work as easily in other 386BSD variants? (like FreeBSD) We're using 57.6K -- see my post "Modem Stats" about our throughput. I'm trying to get hayes to give me their programming manual. But I think for MOST things 57.6 is fine. Its very seldom I see character xfers getting near 7000 bytes/s -- The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn | banshee@resort.com | Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head? | | DoD#0667 "Just a friend of the beast." | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU | 2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| |