Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!cs.edinburgh.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Serial Port Jammed Message-ID: <8627@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 9 Apr 91 15:15:34 GMT References: <7244@bgsuvax.UUCP> <226700012@primerd> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Tasha Yar Appreciation Soc... oh, sh*t Lines: 22 In article <226700012@primerd>, os@primerd.prime.com writes: > I seem to remember some discussion awhile back related to MIDI applications > locking up the serial port, particularly if exited uncleanly. Yup, that's happened to me. Even, sometimes, when exiting cleanly. > I don't remember > if the problem stayed around from boot to boot. Yup. Or the problem can just appear. > I thought there was a DA or > other application that was mentioned that one could run to clear the condition. spconfig_reset will often clear it. Or, running a non MIDI-manager application for a second or two. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "I see what you see: Nurse Bibs on a rubber horse."