I based this on some troubleshooting notes on the FDTI web site, and they mentioned that devices that send lot's of short messages, as well as slow devices, tend to have problems with a 4k buffer. I tried it, and it's now working. Not sure I can bring much more to the table on this one.
Dave On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM, John Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > The upcoming 3.0 version will have much better serial code (i.e., Mark's, > rather than mine) but yes, it may still be vulnerable to the Windows > serial-mouse lameness. I'm not sure why the FIFO buffer size should have > mattered, though. If any other information on that comes to light, I'd be > curious to hear about it. > > -- john, KE5FX > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on >> Behalf Of David Bengtson >> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 2:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lady Heather Serial receive Error 0x2 >> >> >> Hi All >> >> I finally managed to get some time to figure this out. I was using a >> usb-serial interface with the FTDI chipset, and I had to tweak two >> parameters to get it working. First, I had to tell the driver that I >> didn't have a serial mouse (Serial enumnerator checkbox) and the >> second thing was to tweak the serial buffer. It was set to 4k, which >> was too large. I changed that to 1k, and it's been running for ~ 20 >> hours happily. >> >> Dave >> >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:53 PM, David Bengtson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi All: >> > >> > I'm running what I believe to be the latest version of Lady Heather on >> > a Windows XP laptop. I'm using a USB-Serial interface, and I'm getting >> > this error after about 15 to 20 minutes of data taking. I haven't seen >> > any recent discussion on this problem, I'm curious to know if anyone >> > else has seen this, and if they've figured it out. Once the error >> > message shows up, I quit out and restart the app, and it works fine. >> > I'm starting it with a shortcut "C:\Program >> > Files\Heather\heather.exe" /7 to point it at the com7 serial porty. >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > >> > Dave >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
