On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:41:54PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > We have a FreeBSD6.2 system capturing serial data on /dev/ttyd0. > /dev/ttyd1 is currently set up for serial console use and we may > want to add a third serial port to run yet another serial data > capture engine. > > Since receiving serial data is far more problematic than > transmitting it, can anybody think of any particular problem one > might encounter if both the data acquisition ports happened to > be trying to receive data simultaneously? > > The serial console port is not really an issue because > it will be rarely ever used.
Problems with two lousy little serial ports running at the same time under FreeBSD? Heck no! Just use something better than a 16 MHz 386SX with 640K and you'll be fine. BTDT, and even that little system had no problems with serial I/O. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"