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From: tomp@amiga.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Parity on serial port
Message-ID: <706@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 15:42:05 EST
Article-I.D.: amiga.706
Posted: Wed Feb 19 15:42:05 1986
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References: <1435@gitpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: tomp@stella.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky)
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In article <1435@gitpyr.UUCP> wutka@gitpyr.UUCP (Mark Wutka) writes:
>
>  According to the ROM Kernel Manual, I can get even parity by setting
>the SERF_PARTY_ON flag and by not setting the SERF_PARTY_ODD flag.
>This doesn't seem to work. I even tried changing the number of data bits
>just in case the parity affected it and it didn't work. I had the same
>problem when doing serial IO from Amigabasic. Is there something wrong
>with the parity routines ?

  uh, well, yes. This is a "known" bug, recently discovered. It'll be fixed
in the next release. Sorry about that. Read should be ok, write has the problem.