Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!ogre!greg From: greg@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2232 Multi Port Serial Board Message-ID: <9875@cica.cica.indiana.edu> Date: 18 Jan 91 16:11:38 GMT References: <26268@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@cica.cica.indiana.edu Lines: 25 In bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) writes: >The only problem I can see with running a BBS using the A2232 is that the firmware >(at least in my A2232) does not drop DTR when the device is closed. If your >software drops DTR to reset the modem (as does UUCP 1.06), you'll have problems. >Supposedly, this is a known problem, albeit with low priority, to the folks at >Commodore, and hopefully will be corrected soon. If this is true is shouldn't be a "low priority." How else is software supposed to be able to reliably drop a connection/hang up the phone/reset the modem? If someone sends/posts some arcane stream of Hayes commands that do it I swear I'll just scream. I have never, ever, in 15 years of working with serial devices ever run across one that didn't drop DTR when the device was closed. At least a serial card that purported to have modem control. If true, this is a MAJOR bug with the card. I was just about to plop down $400 for one of these...Guess I better see if my dealer can get a loaner to try out first. -- Gregory R. Travis Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405 greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu Center for Innovative Computer Applications Disclaimer: Everything I say is true and I never lie.