From: rosenfeld@grumpf.hope-2000.org (Hans Rosenfeld)
Subject: [TUHS] Codata restoration - day 1
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 22:13:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141010201303.GF25824@grumpf.hope-2000.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B2E15B59-0249-468F-A4CF-CB1D099F0006@leedsbeckett.ac.uk>
Hi Michael,
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 05:26:58PM +0000, Engel, Michael wrote:
> The serial cable is working, we tried all sorts of handshake configurations.
> If we get any characters back (the system is running at 9600 baud, I tried
> all combinations of 7/8 bit, none/even/odd/mark/space parity and 1/2 stop
> bits), these are garbled and contain mostly "1" bits (0xfc, 0xfe, 0xff or
> similar).
>
> The UART itself seems to work (exchanged it with the one from the non
> working board - same result), so now I suspect the AM26LS32 RS423
> driver to be the culprit.
I've had that a few times with PDP11s and VAXen from the 80s. The line
receivers suddenly died, showing exactly the symptoms you describe.
Those were different chips (ua96XX), but the concept is the same.
Replacing them with newer chips from the same family worked without
problems.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-10 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-10 17:26 Engel, Michael
2014-10-10 18:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-10 19:21 ` Engel, Michael
2014-10-10 19:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-10-12 18:18 ` Erik Fair
2014-10-11 21:48 ` Clem Cole
2014-10-10 20:13 ` Hans Rosenfeld [this message]
2014-10-10 20:37 ` Warner Losh
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