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Robert J. Brown wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:
> 
>     Gert> I have received quite a lot of complaints about on-board
>     Gert> serial ports recently -- seems that those "super multi
>     Gert> I/O"-chips are really, really crappy.
> 
>     Gert> I have to second this from my own experience -- using the
>     Gert> two on-board FIFOs on my old ASUS SP3 board regularily
>     Gert> crashed the whole machine (SCO Unix), when I stopped using
>     Gert> them, I had no crashes anymore.
> 
> Ditto.  I have disables the on mother board serial ports and installed
> ISA cards to provide them instead.  

Grmpf... 

OK. I understand that Gerd and I did our best, but it won't work.
It doesn't get us much further, but nice to know! :-)

Martin