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Re: [avr-chat] FTDI232 chips & Missing data
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Till Harbaum |
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Re: [avr-chat] FTDI232 chips & Missing data |
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Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:13:24 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Thursday 08 December 2005 00:36, address@hidden wrote:
> Has anyone on the list encountered and solved this problem before,
> either by tweaking the FTDI driver, or by adding flow control, or
> something else.
You just can't expect a serial line to be reliable without using flow control.
Depending on bit rate, host cpu speed, rs232 hardware buffers and host
operating system you might be lucky and have a flawless transmission even
without any flow control. But in general you just can't rely on it.
Ciao,
Till
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Dr.Ing. Till Harbaum, address@hidden