Re: OldWorld floppy and serial port work

[David Riley <fraveydank%gmail.com@localhost>]

Well, that's the problem; I have a 9600, which is probably somewhat different 
than the serial port on the G4 (which is built in, but not exposed by default, 
and I wonder if it's different hardware).  All the way back to the original 
Mac, they've used a Z8530 (just like Sun and everyone else who wanted a *real* 
serial chip), and mac68k works fine.  For me, if I look at a man page, it stops 
responding to serial commands (though it'll still output log messages, which is 
puzzling).  The system log doesn't output any debug info, so I'll probably have 
to start from the top.

If anyone has pointers on where to start looking (i.e. has tried to tackle this 
before), it would be nice to at least stand on the shoes of giants, if not the 
shoulders. :-)

- Dave

On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:41:25PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> Hmm, seems to work for me - what variant of nervous break down do you see?
> 
> Duh, did not closely pay attention to this being on port-macppc; I actually
> tested on mac68k and it works there - my macppc serial port hardware seems
> broken (a stealth G4 card, the rx line seems to be dead), so I couldn't test
> there - sorry.
> 
> Martin